Removing heaven and earth. The exhumations of victims of Francoism as fissures of silence in the transition

Our companion Zoé de Kerangat has obtained the outstanding cum laude with her doctoral thesis “Removing heaven and earth. The exhumations of victims of Francoism as fissures of silence in the transition”, which she defended on Friday, February 7, 2020.

The presentation took place in the Department of Contemporary History of the Autonomous University of Madrid.

The thesis was directed by Francisco Ferrándiz (CSIC) and Jesús Izquierdo (UAM). She completed the thesis with an FPI grant (funded by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness) in the I + D + i project CSO2012-32709 “The Underground Past: Exhumations and Memory Politics in Contemporary Spain in Transnational and Comparative Perspective”.