Marid
Nov 01, 2020
3 minutes
BY REBECCA CLOSE
uring the office of the socialist mayor Manuela Carmena (2015–19), the names of 52 streets in Madrid were changed. The original street names used before the Franco dictatorship (1939–75) were recuperated, or else the names of women scholars or pedagogical institutions, among others, were introduced. Madrid has been cracking open the sites of official memory to revision, civic dialogue, and participation. Yet when it comes to addressing the ways in which Spanish colonialism continues to organize city life
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