Lino Camprubí
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027175
- eISBN:
- 9780262323222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027175.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The chapter begins with a group of young and promising scientists and architects who accompanied the founder of Opus Dei, Escrivá de Balaguer, as he fled from Madrid in 1937. At the end of the Civil ...
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The chapter begins with a group of young and promising scientists and architects who accompanied the founder of Opus Dei, Escrivá de Balaguer, as he fled from Madrid in 1937. At the end of the Civil War, members of this group became central organizers of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The chapter traces the material and ideological relationships established between laboratories and churches in early Francoism. Through the concept of “Christian autarky,” it shows that National Catholicism and technical research nourished each other in ways that have too often been ignored. It explores the religious architecture of Miguel Fisac as a motor of change for the Spanish church. Finally, it analyzes internal colonization through rural cities as a tool for transforming landscapes and peoples.Less
The chapter begins with a group of young and promising scientists and architects who accompanied the founder of Opus Dei, Escrivá de Balaguer, as he fled from Madrid in 1937. At the end of the Civil War, members of this group became central organizers of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The chapter traces the material and ideological relationships established between laboratories and churches in early Francoism. Through the concept of “Christian autarky,” it shows that National Catholicism and technical research nourished each other in ways that have too often been ignored. It explores the religious architecture of Miguel Fisac as a motor of change for the Spanish church. Finally, it analyzes internal colonization through rural cities as a tool for transforming landscapes and peoples.
Lino Camprubí
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027175
- eISBN:
- 9780262323222
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027175.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
In the 20thcentury, science and technology became central to territorial transformation and in turn to state building. This was no less true for the Francoist regime. Engineers were not just working ...
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In the 20thcentury, science and technology became central to territorial transformation and in turn to state building. This was no less true for the Francoist regime. Engineers were not just working “under” the dictatorship, but became active participants within it. This book traces concrete material objects in their way from laboratories onto the Spanish landscape. These include a dodecahedral silo for coal storage, a church within a laboratory, rural cities, rice seeds, scale models for dams, and performance standards for concrete. The material history of these projects offers new perspectives on the political, economic, and environmental history of early Francoism.Previous histories of science and technology in the early Francoist regime have stressed repression and censorship. Many scientists and engineers were indeed exiled, imprisoned, or even executed. This book argues, however, that those who remained seized the opportunity of becoming relevant political actors. Paying attention to this process opens up new approaches to topics as far ranging as the Francoist political economy and its industrialization, autarky and corporate unions, National Catholicism, the meanings of totalitarianism, and the technological integration of Europe.Separately, each chapter offers a microhistory that illustrates the coevolution of Francoist science, technology, and politics. Taken together, they reveal networks of people, institutions, knowledge, artifacts, and technological systems woven together to form a new state.Less
In the 20thcentury, science and technology became central to territorial transformation and in turn to state building. This was no less true for the Francoist regime. Engineers were not just working “under” the dictatorship, but became active participants within it. This book traces concrete material objects in their way from laboratories onto the Spanish landscape. These include a dodecahedral silo for coal storage, a church within a laboratory, rural cities, rice seeds, scale models for dams, and performance standards for concrete. The material history of these projects offers new perspectives on the political, economic, and environmental history of early Francoism.Previous histories of science and technology in the early Francoist regime have stressed repression and censorship. Many scientists and engineers were indeed exiled, imprisoned, or even executed. This book argues, however, that those who remained seized the opportunity of becoming relevant political actors. Paying attention to this process opens up new approaches to topics as far ranging as the Francoist political economy and its industrialization, autarky and corporate unions, National Catholicism, the meanings of totalitarianism, and the technological integration of Europe.Separately, each chapter offers a microhistory that illustrates the coevolution of Francoist science, technology, and politics. Taken together, they reveal networks of people, institutions, knowledge, artifacts, and technological systems woven together to form a new state.
