The 2023 MSA First Book Award to “De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia”
Daniel Palacios González, has won the prestigious international First Book Award 2023 awarded by the Memory Studies Association (MSA) with his book De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia, based on his doctoral thesis.The thesis was co-directed by Francisco Ferrándiz (ILLA-CCHS-CSIC) in 2022.
“We are pleased to announce that this year’s award goes to Daniel Palacios González, the author of “De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia”. In his monograph, Daniel Palacios González traces the histories and meanings of mass graves of the Spanish War and Dictatorship. The reviewers praised the book for its comprehensiveness, theoretical depth, and empirical richness. They also emphasized the author’s critical approach to the ‘forensic turn’ and his precise differentiation of national and local mnemonic policies”
