José Álvarez Junco

José Álvarez Junco (born 1942) is a Spanish historian, emeritus professor of the History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is an expert in the study of the nation-building of Spain, nationalisms and the anarchist movement.

José Álvarez Junco
Born8 November 1942  (age 78)
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Biography

Born on 8 November 1942 in Vielha,[1] in the Catalan Pyrenees, he moved young with his family to Villalpando (province of Zamora), where he was raised and spent his youth.[2] He took his highschool studies at the Instituto Claudio Moyano,[3] in the provincial capital, Zamora.

He studied law (1959–1964) and political science (1962–1965) at the University of Madrid.[2] A pupil of Luis Díez del Corral and José Antonio Maravall during his university years,[4][2] he earned a PhD at the UCM reading a thesis on the Spanish anarchist movement supervised by Maravall.[n. 1]

From 1992 to 2000, he held the Prince of Asturias endowed chair at Tufts University.[6] He was also the Chair of the Iberian Study Group at the Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).[3]

From 2004 to 2008 he was Director of the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC) in Madrid, serving in that capacity as member of the Council of State.[7]

Chair of History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the UCM, he retired in 2014.[8]

Works
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  • — (1971). La Comuna en España. Siglo XXI.[9]
  • — (1976). La ideología política del anarquismo español, 1868-1910.[10][11]
  • — (1981). Los movimientos obreros en el Madrid del siglo XIX. Madrid: Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
  • — (1983). Periodismo y política en el Madrid de fin de siglo: el primer lerrouxismo. Madrid: Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
  • — (1990). El "Emperador del Paralelo". Alejandro Lerroux y la demagogia populista. Alianza Editorial.[12]
  • — (2001). Mater Dolorosa. La idea de España en el siglo XIX. Taurus Ediciones.[n. 2]
  • — (2016). Dioses útiles. Naciones y nacionalismos. Madrid: Galaxia Gutenberg.[13]
  • — (2019). A las barricadas. Cultura, identidad y movilización política. Madrid: Ediciones Complutense.

References
Informational Notes
  1. He has commented it was intended that he would read the dissertation on 21 December 1973, but as Carrero was killed on that day, he asked for a delay, as it would not be a good day to read a thesis about anarchism.[5]
  2. Awarded with the National Essay Prize and the 2003 Fastenrath Prize.
Citations
  1. "Referencia del Consejo de Ministros". www.lamoncloa.gob.es. Government of Spain. 28 May 2004.
  2. Gómez, Lidia (8 October 2014). "José Álvarez Junco: 'Queríamos hacer la contrahistoria'". www.elmundo.es. El Mundo.
  3. Hernández, Jesús (16 October 2008). "José Alvarez Junco, en el "Top 50" de los intelectuales con mayor influencia". La Opinión de Zamora.
  4. Cruz, Juan (22 January 2014). "El "historiador heterodoxo" se despide de ustedes". elpais.com. El País.
  5. Fernández, Jaime (11 June 2019). "Ediciones Complutense repasa la trayectoria intelectual de José Álvarez Junco". www.tribuna.ucm.es. Complutense University of Madrid.
  6. "Esta tarde en la UPO, conferencia de José Álvarez Junco sobre "Mito e historia. España y Cataluña"". www.upo.es. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. 2 April 2014.
  7. Sáinz, Sanda (12 December 2018). "Las naciones son producto de ciertas circunstancias políticas, culturales..." www.larioja.com. La Rioja.
  8. Hidalgo, Manuel (6 August 2016). "Álvarez Junco: "El populismo suele acabar, si triunfa, en el partido único"". www.elmundo.es. El Mundo.
  9. Elorza 1972, p. 45.
  10. Amador 2002.
  11. Mercader Riba 1976, p. 151.
  12. Solé 1992, pp. 221-224.
  13. Moreno Luzón 2016; López Alonso 2016, pp. 975–979
Bibliography


Academic offices
Preceded by
María del Carmen Iglesias Cano		 Director of the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies
2004–2008		 Succeeded by
Paloma Biglino Campos
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