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[email protected] CJCS 8 (1) pp. 11–30 Intellect Limited 2016 Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies Volume 8 Number 1 © 2016 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/cjcs.8.1.11_1 ruth sanz sabido Canterbury Christ Church University Local memories: Conflict 2016 and lived experience in theLtd spanish CivilIntellect war abstraCt Keywords Copyright1. The winners of any conflictdistribution often try to impose their views on the defeated. Through memory 2. official and unofficial mechanisms, most of which operate under the aegis of the Spanish Civil War 3. state and otherfor agents that work on its behalf, the voices of the defeated are silenced. local memories 4. One important counter-mechanism that is available, the one that may serve to resist orality 5. notthe imposition of the victors’ History, is frequently found in the collection, analysis community 6. and publication of oral testimonies, which give expression to, and magnify, silenced ethnography 7.