Accounting for objects: the rattle of historical memory
Abstract
In recent years, objects exhumed from Francoist mass graves have sparked considerable media interest. The press recounts familial and scientific-technical stories associated with these objects through diverse discursive practices. This article analyses, through press articles published between 2009 and 2023, the discourse surrounding the rattle exhumed alongside Catalina Muñoz Arranz, a woman repressed by Franco's regime in Palencia in 1936. Employing Ruth Wodak’s methodology of historical discourse analysis and a neo-materialist and feminist interpretative framework, we introduce the concept of ambivalent object, showing how journalistic narratives about the rattle generate political deactivations marked by gender, as well as reparative reactivations of historical memory.
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