Rafael Pérez Baquero

Rafael Pérez Baquero is an Assistant Professor at the University of Murcia (Spain). He received a Phd in Philosophy with a Fellowship by Spanish Ministry of Education. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Narrating History, Remembering Trauma: Memory and Forgetfulness of Spanish Civil War, eighty years later. Philosophy Graduate by University of Murcia (2009-2013). MA in Theoretical and Practical Philosophy, and University Expert in Social Memory and Human Rights (2018), by UNED (2013-2014). Visiting Researcher at Romance Studies Department, Cornell University and at Languages and Cultures Department, Birkbeck, University of London. His investigation attempts to delve into the definition of the dynamics and influences that arise between collective memory and the writing of history; in order to apply this theoretical background to the Spanish case. Specifically, he intends to explore the evolution of the memory of the Civil War (1936-39) during the democratic transition and thereafter.

Most important publications:

R. P. Baquero. “Melancholia in Contemporary Spain: Digging Up a Past that did not pass away”, in Boryslawski, Rafal; Bemben Alicja (eds.), Emotions: Engines of History, Routledge: London, 2021, pp. 223-238.

R. P. Baquero. “Witnessing Catastrophe: Testimony and Historical Representation within and beyond the Holocaust”, Studia Phaenomenologica, XXI, 2021, pp. 231-250.

R. P. Baquero. “From Psychoanalysis to Cultural Trauma: Narrating Legacies of Collective Suffering”. Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory. 6, 2021, pp. 1-16.

R.P. Baquero. Trauma, recuerdo y duelo: Una aproximación filosófica a las relaciones entre memoria e historia, Editorial Comares: Granada, 2021.

R. P. Baquero. “Re-thinking Collective Trauma in the 20^th: Memory, Victimhood and Temporality of the Spanish Civil War”. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. 26, 1, 2021, pp. 99-117.

R. P. Baquero. “Memory, Narrative, and Conflict in Writing the Past: When Historians undergoes Ethical and Political Strains”. Historia da historiografía: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography. v. 13 n. 32, 2020, pp. 47-81.

R. P. Baquero. “Re-framing the Spanish Civil War as Cultural Trauma: When Responsibilities get blurred after Trauma”, University of Bucharest Review, 12, 2019, pp. 65-73.

R. P. Baquero. “The Ethic-Political Commitments in the Writing of History: Hayden White’s Formalism and the Holocaust Problem”, in Fragio, Alberto; Velasco Ros (eds.), Contemporary Approaches in Philosophical and Humanistic Thought. Aracne Editrice: Roma, 2017, pp. 39-55.