François GODICHEAU

38 years
Professor at the University of Bordeaux III / EA 3656 AMERIBER
Mail: francoisgodicheau@yahoo.fr

Academic background

Student of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay-St Cloud, professor of history, member of the Casa de Velázquez and doctorate in history from the EHESS (2001). Actually, he taught at the University Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III.

Current Research

After the research on the period of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), which came to fruition with the publication of several books and thirty articles, he begans to reorient its work to the nineteenth century, to apply to a broader reflection period already conducted on public order and place it in the construction of the state. Attracted by the comparative, after his first participation, in 2004, in Tandil (Argentina) on the comparison of transcontinental Spanish case with that of its former colonies. Interested in the comparison with Italy, he also performed at the same time a research trip to Rome by winning the Prix Hermann Diederiks 2003 of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice. Reflection on the State and public order was then developed in 2008, first about the history of contemporary Spanish state and the other on the social construction of the figure of the anarchist, as part of a group project on "Images of disorder in contemporary Spain and Portugal", "conceptos políticos y social en España modernidad of").

Featured publications

  • «La política de orden después de mayo de 1937 y la reconstrucción del Estado», en Revista de Occidente, 304, 2006, p. 60-79.
  • «Orden público y desarrollo en la construcción del Estado ¿varias vías para varios tipos de Estado ?», en Andrea Reguera, (coord.), Los rostros de la modernidad. Vías de transición al capitalismo. Europa y América Latina, siglos XIX-XX, Rosario, Prohistoria Ediciones, 2006, p. 121-135. [vol. II du dossier d’HDR]
  • « La Garde civile et le rétablissement de l’ordre en ville : symptôme de la crise de l’ordre public dans l’Espagne contemporaine (1844-1936) », Force publique, revue de la société nationale histoire et patrimoine de la Gendarmerie, 3, mars 2008, pp. 117-131.
  • « Violences de guerre civile en Espagne », Revue d’histoire de la Shoah, "Violences coloniales, violences de guerre, violences extrêmes", 188, septembre, 2008, pp. 413-430.
  • «El anarquista: la construcción social del “enemigo de la sociedad”, al hilo del siglo XIX», en Encarna Nicolás, y Carmen González, (eds.), Ayeres en discusión. Temas claves de la Historia Contemporánea hoy, CDRom, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2008.