Faculty Member, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Thesis Title: A Porous Frontier: Gibraltar and its Relationship with Neighbouring Spain, 1923-1954.
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Professor Martin Blinkhorn
Professor Stephen Constantine |
About
My thesis, now published in the Sussex/Cañada Blanch series on Modern Spain as 'Gibraltar: A Dagger in the Spine of Spain?', was the first in-depth study of the Gibraltar-Spain relationship at a local level. My work focussed on the idea and process of the frontier, and demonstrated the ways in which the frontier served to blur rather than solidify civilian identities on either side of it. Nothing new, of course, in the wider field of frontier studies, but I hope a useful case study, and of course airing a number of ideas that certainly were/are novel in understanding Gibraltar's often fractious relationship with Spain.
I remain interested in the history of Gibraltar and a co-authored monograph (with Dr Chris Grocott) 'Gibraltar: a Modern History' will soon be published by the University of Wales Press. Various other Gibraltar projects are ongoing, including an article on the importance of sport to understanding the supposed 'Gibraltar problem', and a further article on the importance of wartime evacuation to modern Gibraltarian identity.
My research increasingly moves me towards the history of modern Spain, and I will shortly be publishing an extended piece on representation and meaning at one of Spain's most (in)famous landmarks, El Valle de los Caídos. I am also at the start of a much bigger project on the experience and activity of Spanish 'rightist' exiles during the 1930s.
Contact Information
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| Address: | Dept of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK |
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0115 84 67487 |
