Cartographies of Madrid

Silvia Bermudez is Professor of Spanish in Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.Anthony L. Geist is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.

• Introduction | Madrid as a Capital of the Global South and the Global North: Mapping Competing Cartographies and Spatial ResistanceSilvia Bermúdez and Anthony L. GeistPart I | Capitalizing on Visual and Literary Cultures, and Challenging Urban Exclusion1. “Madriz es mucho Madrid”: The Capital Role of Graphic Arts in Identity FormationAnthony L. Geist2. Rebel Cities: Madrid and the Cultural Contestation of SpaceMalcolm Alan Compitello3. Practices of Oppositional Literacy in the 15-M Movement in MadridJonathan Snyder4. Acabar Madrid: “Future Perfect” Utopianism and the Possibility of Counter-Neoliberal Urbanization in the Spanish CapitalEli Evans5. Trash as Theme and Aesthetic in Elvira Navarro’s La trabajadoraSusan LarsonPart II | Sites of Memory6. Institutional Sites of Remembrance: Monuments and Archives of the 11-M Train BombingsJill Robbins7. The Politics of Public Memory in Madrid Now: From an “Olympic Capital of Impunity” to “Omnia sunt communia?”Scott BoehmPart III | Madrid as Lived Experience8. The Train That Gave Women a VoiceAlicia Luna9. Madrid Municipal Elections 2015: A Time of ChangeRosa M. Tristán10. Historical Perspectives: From Madrid as Villa y Corte to After Carmena, What?Edward BakerAfterword | Madrid and the Traps of ExceptionalityEstrella de Diego and Luis Martín-EstudilloContributorsIndex

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