Los boicots en la primavera del Frente Popular: crisis comunitaria y justicia popular en la Asturias de 1936

Matthew Kerry

doi:10.70794/hs.113531

Authors

Matthew Kerry University of Stirling https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1871-1567

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.113531

Keywords:

boycotts, Popular Front, Asturias, community, popular justice

Abstract

In spring 1936, boycotting emerged as an important form of collective action in areas of central Asturias, which had been the scene of a two-week revolutionary insurrection eighteen months earlier. This article explores the social functions of boycotting as a form of popular justice through a close reading of announcements and reports of boycotts. It argues that boycotts should be seen as an attempt to resolve a “crisis of community” that emerged from the insurrection and the repression through a sophisticated, judicialized system located at the level of the town or village. This sheds new light on the spring of 1936 and the so-called “politics of exclusion” in the context of the Second Republic.

Author Biography

Matthew Kerry, University of Stirling

Professor of contemporary european history at the University of Stirling. PhD in history from the University of Sheffield in 2015 and MA in contemporary history from the University of Zaragoza in 2011. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at York University and the Institut für Soziale Bewegungen (Bochum), has been a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Ibero-American History (Leeds) and has taught at Durham and Loughborough. He is the author of several works on collective action, anticlericalism and political cultures of the 1930s in journals such as English Historical Review and European History Quarterly and of Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1936 (London, University of London Press, 2020).