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 The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

(UCM). He is an expert in the study of the

nation-building Nation-building is constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the state. Nation-building aims at the unification of the people within the state so that it remains politically stable and viable. According to Harris Mylonas, ...

of Spain,

nationalism Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, I ...

s and the

anarchist movement According to different scholars, the history of anarchism either goes back to ancient and prehistoric ideologies and social structures, or begins in the 19th century as a formal movement. As scholars and anarchist philosophers have held a rang ...

Biography

Born on 8 November 1942 in

Vielha Vielha e Mijaran () is a municipality in central Aran, Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital and largest municipality of the region, with a population of . It is part of the terçons of Castièro and Marcatosa. It was created in 1970 by the mer ...

, in the Catalan Pyrenees, he moved young with his family to

Villalpando Villalpando is a municipality located in the province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 1,624 inhabitants. Formerly the town was reputed for its saltpans, the Salinas ...

(province of Zamora), where he was raised and spent his youth. He took his highschool studies at the , 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 Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

and

José Antonio Maravall José Antonio Maravall Casesnoves (1911 in Xàtiva – 1986 in Madrid) was a Spanish historian and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Biography Maravall studied philosophy and law at the University of Murcia, where he ...

during his university years, he earned a PhD at the UCM reading a thesis on the Spanish anarchist movement supervised by Maravall. From 1992 to 2000, he held the Prince of Asturias endowed chair at

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. He was also the Chair of the Iberian Study Group at the

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's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). From 2004 to 2008 he was Director of the

Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies The Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (, CEPC), previously known as the Institute for Political Studies (), is an autonomous agency associated with the Ministry for the Presidency of Spain. Its mission is to analyze the internation ...

(CEPC) in

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, serving in that capacity as member of the

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. Chair of History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the UCM, he retired in 2014.

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