Conflicto, radicalización y exclusión. La vida política local en los municipios de Motril y Santa Fe durante la Segunda República española (1931-1936)

Francisco Cobo Romero; Francisco de Paula Garrido Rodríguez

doi:10.70794/hs.113827

Authors

Francisco Cobo Romero Universidad de Granada https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0608-3639
Francisco de Paula Garrido Rodríguez Universidad de Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.113827

Keywords:

Local power, Second Republic, radicalization, political exclusion, rural conflict

Abstract

The recent historiography on the Second Spanish Republic has barely dealt with the study of the forms
shown by the experience of politics in the rural community scene. During the republican regime, the
agrarian municipalities reached a decisive importance, since they became essential instruments for the
distribution of productive resources and the regulation of agricultural labor markets. The fierce struggle
for control of local powers, sustained between the right and the left, increased the deep fissures that separated the different social groups. All this contributed to the unleashing of a process of radicalization, polarization and political exclusion that accentuated the social, political and cultural fractures that already
divided the rural population of Southern Spain.

Author Biographies

Francisco Cobo Romero, Universidad de Granada

Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Granada. He has specialised in the study of rural conflict and the politicisation of the Spanish peasantry from the end of the 19th century until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His contributions to the study of peasant struggles and the rural world during the period of the Second Republic include his works: De Campesinos a Electores; Revolución campesina y contrarrevolución franquista en Andalucía and, in collaboration with Eduardo González Calleja, Ana Martínez and Francisco Sánchez, La Segunda República Española.

Francisco de Paula Garrido Rodríguez, Universidad de Granada

Graduate in History from the University of Granada. He has carried out the presentation of his Master's Thesis through an exhaustive study of the political evolution of the municipality of Motril during the Second Spanish Republic. He is currently preparing his doctoral thesis, which focuses on the analysis of local powers in the rural world of Andalusia between the wars.