The purge of education, another type of violence. The case of Pinos Genil (Granada, Spain)

Abstract

Repression and violence during the Franco regime was exercised in different way, assassinations and prisons are only one part, perhaps the most recognizable, but not the only one. From the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, other forms of violence were developed, less bloody and more difficult to perceive but equally forceful, undoubtedly marked its victims. As it is easy to assume, the sanction imposed after the political-professional purge on the national teachers —as moves, banishments, enclosures, demotion within the hierarchy, total or partial disqualification to exercise the profession, etc.— caused an enormous damage to the Spanish educational system. In this case, we will analyse the purge of the primary teaching profession, as a repressive and controlling tool of Spanish society, but through the specific case of a teacher in Granada, exactly in Pinos Genil.