¿Lugares de memoria profesionales o políticos? Las representaciones del doctor Robert (1902-c. 2020)

Abstract

The aim of this study on the representations of Bartolomé Robert after his death is to ponder the hierarchization of the social identities remembered. Starting from sociocultural historiography, the focus is placed, on the one hand, on the agents and contexts in which the memorial initiatives were promoted; on the other hand, on the correlative gradation of the evocation of the political and professional dimensions. Places of memory of different nature —obituaries and biographical sessions, christening of public roads, erection of monuments and making of portraits— evolved throughout the course of the twentieth century. It is concluded that the previous socio-professional prestige was key to their political action, but the central axis of the memorial artifacts was the Catalanist narrative. The (socio)political ups and downs were accompanied by resignifications and updates of the narratives; such actions are synchronous to the creation, storage and/or relocation of the concomitant places of memory.