The field of political journals under Francoism

Abstract

In this article, I shall identify a social space originated during the Francoist years. I shall refer to this region as the field of political journals. I shall analyse the social conditions that made the development of this sphere possible, especially referring to the replacement of intelectual generations and the development of the market for cultural products. As I shall show, the field of political journals provided anti-Francoist intellectuals with some degree of autonomy against political power, althougth it also imposed its own limitations and forms of censorship. In this sense, in this region, the range of theoretical and political positions depended, not only on the political censorship imposed over the individual will, but also on the rules of the game imposed by the cultural field itself.