En defensa del orden: la cultura profesional de la policía en la Segunda República, 1931-1936
Loading...
Official URL
Full text at PDC
Publication date
2024
Authors
Advisors (or tutors)
Editors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Asociación de Historia Contemporánea-Marcial Pons
Citation
Vaquero Martínez, S. (2024). En defensa del orden: la cultura profesional de la policía en la Segunda República, 1931-1936. Ayer. Revista De Historia Contemporánea, 135(3), 75–101. https://doi.org/10.55509/ayer/2411
Abstract
La policía constituyó un agente sociopolítico insustituible en el acontecer de la Segunda República. La mayoría de especialistas identifican como causa primordial de su comportamiento el arraigo generalizado de una mentalidad autoritaria y castrense contraria al régimen republicano. Cuestionando dicha idea, el siguiente artículo analiza la cultura policial de aquella época: los discursos, valores, representaciones, identidades, símbolos y prácticas que configuraron su saber profesional y su particular construcción de la realidad. Se defiende que dicha cultura albergaba dos subculturas: una militarizada mayoritaria, otra civil minoritaria, así como algunos atributos característicos de una concepción más profesional y democrática del oficio.
The police were an irreplaceable sociopolitical agent during the Second Republic. Most of the specialists have argued that their be-havior was conditioned by the persistence of an authoritarian, military mentality opposed to the republican regime. This article questions this idea by analysing the culture of the police during the period by focus-ing on the discourses, values, representations, identities, symbols, and practices that informed their professional knowledge and their con-struction of reality. It argues that this culture contained two subcul-tures: a major militarized subculture and a minor civil one, as well as some attributes characteristic of a more professional and democratic conception of the job.
The police were an irreplaceable sociopolitical agent during the Second Republic. Most of the specialists have argued that their be-havior was conditioned by the persistence of an authoritarian, military mentality opposed to the republican regime. This article questions this idea by analysing the culture of the police during the period by focus-ing on the discourses, values, representations, identities, symbols, and practices that informed their professional knowledge and their con-struction of reality. It argues that this culture contained two subcul-tures: a major militarized subculture and a minor civil one, as well as some attributes characteristic of a more professional and democratic conception of the job.













