Repressió econòmica i control social. La Llei de responsabilitats polítiques i la seua aplicació a Gandia, Beniopa i Benipeixcar

Economic repression and social control. The Law of Political Responsibilities and its application in Gandia, Beniopa and Benipeixcar (1939-1966). The historiography of Franco's repression in the Valencian Country still presents enormous controversy. In the specific area of the city of Gandia (with the inclusion of Beniopa and Benipeixcar) the research deficit is even greater. This reality makes it difficult to build a democratic memory from its base of historical knowledge, mortar and pillar for social and educational dissemination. In this general framework, it is necessary to advance the study of repressive actions beyond the consequences of military justice (death penalty or prison), such as the economic punishment of the vanquished that represented the special jurisdiction of political responsibilities. A calculated and planned strategy of state violence that added to the imposition of pecuniary sanctions and confiscations the vector of social control, one of the factors in the establishment and consolidation of the Franco dictatorship. This book features the victims and their resistance, the actors of the repression with their contradictions, the key to gender and a selection of biographies (mayors, bourgeois liberals, committed women...). In this way, through a scientific methodology and with the recovery and dignity of the victims of the Franco dictatorship, democratic memory is being built
Antonio Calzado Aldaria is a professor of Didactics of Social Sciences at the University of Valencia and a PhD in History. His research has focused on the Second Republic, the Civil War and the first Franco regime in local history. He has participated in the Civil War in the Valencian Community and in studies in Valencia, the capital of the Republic. He is co-author of The Second Republic in Gandia: 1931-1936 (with Lluís Sevilla) and Revolution and War in Gandia: 1936-1939 (with Bernat Martí).
Mélanie Ibáñez Domingo holds a degree in History and a PhD in Contemporary History (2017) from the University of Valencia, with an Extraordinary Doctorate Award. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the same university. Among his publications, the monograph Seguimos siendo culpables stands out. The Law of Political Responsibilities against women in Valencia (1939-c.1948) and, as co-author, the didactic and informative guide Mujeres y represión Franco: una guía para su estudio en Valencia.
"Archives and families" is a collection started in 2002 that tries to connect documentary funds with the people who produced and lived them. This volume is part of an initiative by the Department of Democratic Memory and Quality of Gandia City Council which, together with the City's Historical Archive, has built the portal of democratic memory http://www.memoriagandia.org /. This is where this detailed study of the repercussions of the application of the Political Responsibilities Law in Gandia is framed, as well as of the people and families affected.