José Álvarez Junco
{{short description|Spanish historian}}
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José Álvarez Junco (born 1942) is a Spanish historian, emeritus professor of the History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is an expert in the study of the nation-building of Spain, nationalisms and the anarchist movement.
Biography
Born on 8 November 1942 in Vielha,{{Cite web|publisher=Government of Spain|url=https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodeministros/referencias/paginas/2004/c2805040.aspx|website=www.lamoncloa.gob.es|title=Referencia del Consejo de Ministros|date=28 May 2004}} in the Catalan Pyrenees, he moved young with his family to Villalpando (province of Zamora), where he was raised and spent his youth. He took his highschool studies at the {{ill|Instituto Claudio Moyano|es}}, in the provincial capital, Zamora.
He studied law (1959–1964) and political science (1962–1965) at the University of Madrid. A pupil of Luis Díez del Corral and José Antonio Maravall during his university years,{{Cite web|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2014/01/22/actualidad/1390419978_291554.html|publisher=El País|website=elpais.com|title=El "historiador heterodoxo" se despide de ustedes|date=22 January 2014|first=Juan|last=Cruz}}{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elmundo.es/la-aventura-de-la-historia/2014/10/08/54350544268e3ee1448b4572.html|website=www.elmundo.es|publisher=El Mundo|title=José Álvarez Junco: 'Queríamos hacer la contrahistoria'|first=Lidia|last=Gómez|date=8 October 2014}} he earned a PhD at the UCM reading a thesis on the Spanish anarchist movement supervised by Maravall.{{refn|group=n.|He has commented it was intended that he would read the dissertation on 21 December 1973, but as Carrero was killed on that day, he asked for a delay, as it would not be a good day to read a thesis about anarchism.{{Cite web|url=https://tribuna.ucm.es/249/art3750.php#.Xa1ONOgzbIU|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid|title=Ediciones Complutense repasa la trayectoria intelectual de José Álvarez Junco|date=11 June 2019|first=Jaime|last=Fernández|website=www.tribuna.ucm.es|access-date=21 October 2019|archive-date=27 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927020038/http://tribuna.ucm.es/249/art3750.php#.Xa1ONOgzbIU|url-status=dead}}}}
From 1992 to 2000, he held the Prince of Asturias endowed chair at Tufts University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.upo.es/diario/en/institucional/2014/04/manana-en-la-upo-conferencia-de-jose-alvarez-junco-sobre-mito-e-historia-espana-y-cataluna/|publisher=Universidad Pablo de Olavide|title=Esta tarde en la UPO, conferencia de José Álvarez Junco sobre "Mito e historia. España y Cataluña"|date=2 April 2014|website=www.upo.es}} He was also the Chair of the Iberian Study Group at the Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).{{Cite journal|url=https://www.laopiniondezamora.es/zamora/2008/10/16/jose-alvarez-junco-top-50-intelectuales-mayor-influencia/308085.html|journal=La Opinión de Zamora|title=José Alvarez Junco, en el "Top 50" de los intelectuales con mayor influencia|date=16 October 2008|first=Jesús|last=Hernández}}
From 2004 to 2008 he was Director of the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC) in Madrid, serving in that capacity as member of the Council of State.{{Cite web|url=https://www.larioja.com/culturas/naciones-producto-ciertas-20181206003744-ntvo.html|publisher=La Rioja|website=www.larioja.com|title=Las naciones son producto de ciertas circunstancias políticas, culturales...|date=12 December 2018|first=Sanda|last=Sáinz}}
Chair of History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the UCM, he retired in 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2016/08/06/579f00d5268e3e7d448b4585.html|publisher=El Mundo|title=Álvarez Junco: "El populismo suele acabar, si triunfa, en el partido único"|date=6 August 2016|first=Manuel|last=Hidalgo|website=www.elmundo.es}}
Works
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- {{Cite book|author=José Álvarez Junco|author-mask=1|year=1971|title=La Comuna en España|publisher=Siglo XXI}}{{sfn|Elorza|1972|p=45}}
- {{Cite book|author=José Álvarez Junco|author-mask=1|year=1976|title=La ideología política del anarquismo español, 1868-1910}}{{sfn|Amador|2002}}{{sfn|Mercader Riba|1976|p=151}}
- {{Cite book|author=José Álvarez Junco|author-mask=1|year=1981|title=Los movimientos obreros en el Madrid del siglo XIX|location=Madrid|publisher=Ayuntamiento de Madrid}}
- {{Cite book|author=José Álvarez Junco|author-mask=1|year=1983|title=Periodismo y política en el Madrid de fin de siglo: el primer lerrouxismo|location=Madrid|publisher=Ayuntamiento de Madrid}}
- {{Cite book|author=José Álvarez Junco|author-mask=1|year=1990|title=El "Emperador del Paralelo". Alejandro Lerroux y la demagogia populista|publisher=Alianza Editorial}}{{sfn|Solé|1992|pp=221-224}}
- {{Cite book|author=José Álvarez Junco|author-mask=1|year=2001|title=Mater Dolorosa. La idea de España en el siglo XIX|publisher=Taurus Ediciones}}{{refn|group=n.|Awarded with the {{ill|National Essay Prize (Spain)|es|Premio Nacional de Ensayo (España)|lt=National Essay Prize}} and the 2003 {{ill|Fastenrath Prize|es|Premio Fastenrath}}.}}
- {{Cite book|author=José Álvarez Junco|author-mask=1|year=2016|title=Dioses útiles. Naciones y nacionalismos|location=Madrid|publisher=Galaxia Gutenberg}}{{Harvnb|Moreno Luzón|2016}}; {{Harvnb|López Alonso|2016|pp=975–979}}
- {{Cite book|author=José Álvarez Junco|author-mask=1|year=2019|title=A las barricadas. Cultura, identidad y movilización política|location=Madrid|publisher=Ediciones Complutense}}
References
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- {{Cite journal|last=Amador|title=La ideología política de Anarquismo español. José Álvarez Junco|issue=13|date=September 2002|issn=1575-6475|url=http://fal.cnt.es/sites/all/documentos/bicel/Bicel13/8.htm|publisher=Fundación de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo|journal=Boletín Interno de la Fundación de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo|access-date=2019-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831130330/http://fal.cnt.es/sites/all/documentos/bicel/Bicel13/8.htm|archive-date=2016-08-31|url-status=dead}}
- {{Cite journal|title=El "historiador heterodoxo" se despide de ustedes|first=Juan|last=Cruz|location=Madrid|journal=El País|date=22 January 2014|url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/01/22/actualidad/1390419978_291554.html}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Elorza|first=Antonio|journal=Triunfo|issue=483|pages=45|date=1 January 1972|title=Libros: Ecos de la Comuna|url=http://www.triunfodigital.com/mostradorn.php?a%F1o=XXVI&num=483&imagen=45&fecha=1972-01-01}}
- {{cite journal|author-link=Carmen López Alonso|first=Carmen|last=López Alonso|volume=53|issue=3|year=2016|pages=975–979|journal=Política y Sociedad|issn=1130-8001|location=Madrid|publisher=Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid|title=Álvarez Junco, J. (2016). Dioses útiles. Naciones y nacionalismos. Madrid: Galaxia Gutenberg, 316 págs.|url=http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/POSO/article/viewFile/53111/48762|doi=10.5209/rev_POSO.2016.v53.n3.53111|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite journal|title=97319 Álvarez Junco, José: La ideología política del anarquismo español (1868-1910). - Siglo Veintiuno de España, editores. - Madrid, 1976.- 662 p., 17 láms. (21 x 13,5).|journal=Índice Histórico Español|first=Juan|last=Mercader Riba|year=1976|volume=22|issue=75|publisher=Universitat de Barcelona|issn=0537-3522|url=http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/IHE/article/view/3026/3296|pages=151}}
- {{Cite journal|title=La nación, artefacto moderno|first=Javier|last=Moreno Luzón|author-link=Javier Moreno Luzón|date=30 April 2016|journal=Babelia|url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/04/27/babelia/1461768359_059520.html}}
- {{Cite journal|title=José Álvarez Junco. El emperador del Paralelo. Lerroux y la demagogia populista (Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1990)|last=Solé|first=Carlota|journal=Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas|issue=58|year=1992|pages=221–224|url=http://ddd.uab.cat/pub/artpub/1992/117123/revespinvsoc_a1992n58p221.pdf|publisher=Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas|doi=10.2307/40183567|jstor=40183567|issn=0210-5233}}
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Category:20th-century Spanish historians
Category:Tufts University faculty
Category:Historians of political thought
Category:Scholars of nationalism
Category:Historians of the labour movement in Spain
Category:21st-century Spanish historians
Category:Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid