Beyond the mass grave. Producing and remembering landscapes of memory in Francoist Spain

Since 2000, there have been numerous exhumations all over Spain whose aim has been to recover the corpses of those killed by right-wing violence during and after the Civil War and to expose the true nature of Francoist power and its lingering effects in the present (Ferrándiz 2009). 1 My point in this chapter is that mass graves are just one part of the wider ?deathworlds?(Mbembe 2003, 40) of the Franco regime. Francoist necropower was not limited to killing people and burying them in unmarked graves.

Political violence. Dictatorship. Conflict archaeology. Cultural memory.