El giro cultural en la Historia Contemporánea española: nuevas complejidades, aperturas metodológicas y testimonios de la praxis

Abstract

The article reflects on the cultural turn in the recent Spanish historiography, and interprets it as a decisive factor for its recent methodological and epistemological openings. The main milestones linked to Intellectual History, the Cultural History of Politics and the History of marginal phenomena (Gender, Exile, Victims, etc.) are gathered. In addition, as a self-portrait, ten relevant testimonies of the incorporation of culture in historiographical practice are included. The main idea is that the cultural turn is responsible for a new anti-canonical, interdisciplinary and transnational historiographic production, which tends to include a strong selfreferential and metahistorical reflection. Culture as an essential part of historical methodology allows narrating the past from a greater awareness of its pluralities, and with the inclusion of innovative interpretative frameworks and chronologies, which contributes to get ahead to the new complexities provided by the global reality of the 21st century.