Catalan Independence And The Crisis Of Sovereignty

Author : Óscar García Agustín
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030548678
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty written by Óscar García Agustín and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state’s opposition to any attempt of secessionism. The volume addresses some of the key political and academic issues of contemporary European societies: nationalism, separatism and sovereignty. The banned referendum in Catalonia in October 2017 unveiled the existence of multiple crises, from territorial to economic and political. Indeed, the Catalan issue is about the crisis of sovereignty: who holds legitimacy to make decisions, and who is in power legally and politically? The book is structured according to three themes: sovereignty and its people, where the realignment to independence, populism and the definition of the demos are discussed; collective identities and actions, to account for the shaping of ‘us’, the importance of collective memory and the cross-alliances forged during the referendum; and internationalization, focusing on Europeanisation, international media and comparative constitutional perspectives.

Author : Óscar García Agustín
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030548681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty written by Óscar García Agustín and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state's opposition to any attempt of secessionism. The volume addresses some of the key political and academic issues of contemporary European societies: nationalism, separatism and sovereignty. The banned referendum in Catalonia in October 2017 unveiled the existence of multiple crises, from territorial to economic and political. Indeed, the Catalan issue is about the crisis of sovereignty: who holds legitimacy to make decisions, and who is in power legally and politically? The book is structured according to three themes: sovereignty and its people, where the realignment to independence, populism and the definition of the demos are discussed; collective identities and actions, to account for the shaping of 'us', the importance of collective memory and the cross-alliances forged during the referendum; and internationalization, focusing on Europeanisation, international media and comparative constitutional perspectives. Óscar García Agustín is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is Head of the DEMOS research group. He is the author of Left-Wing Populism (2020), Solidarity and the 'Refugee Crisis' in Europe (with Martin Bak Jorgensen, 2018), and Podemos and the New Political Cycle (with Marco Briziarelli, 2018).

Author : Albert Branchadell
Publisher : Generalitat de Catalunya - Institut d'Estudis de l'Autogovern
ISBN 13 : 8439396120
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catalan Process written by Albert Branchadell and published by Generalitat de Catalunya - Institut d'Estudis de l'Autogovern. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquest llibre vol ajudar al lector a entendre i interpretar els esdeveniments polítics de la història recent de Catalunya. El llibre també mostra que el procés té una pertinència política que va més enllà del context espanyol català i es refereix a punts clau pel que fa a la interacció de democràcia, sobirania i estatisme al segle XXI.

Author : Andrew Dowling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317169441
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Catalan Independence written by Andrew Dowling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Europe and beyond as a role model for successful devolution which had much to teach other parts of the world. The Spanish state seemed to be on a journey towards an authentic federal order and was generally admired. However, the new century has been marked by an ever-growing independence movement, with 47.8 per cent of Catalonia voting in favour of independence in September 2015. Pro-independence mobilization has produced a rupture in political relations with the rest of Spain leading to a sovereignty struggle with Madrid. This book explores how an accumulation of long-, medium- and short-term factors have produced the current situation and why the Spanish territorial model has been unable or possibly, unwilling, to respond. The Catalan question is not purely a Spanish problem: it has direct implications for the traditional nation-state model, in Europe and beyond.

Author : Richard Gillespie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351046853
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barcelona, the Left and the Independence Movement in Catalonia written by Richard Gillespie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by social movement activists and left-wing parties during years of austerity, Barcelona en Comú, or the Comuns (as they are known in Catalan), won control of the city council of Barcelona in May 2015. The ensuing municipal government gave the city its first ever female mayor in the form of former housing rights campaigner Ada Colau. The Comuns' administration proceeded to undertake ambitious initiatives, attempting to regenerate democracy by changing the relationship between municipal authority and citizen, addressing social inequality issues and seeking to curb the hitherto unbridled tourist expansion in the name of improving the environment for those who live in the Catalan capital. This book examines the extent to which the political project of the Comuns has brought radical change in Barcelona, where it has faced opposition from revolutionary anti-capitalists, traditional Catalan nationalists and independentistas, as well as conservative political and economic forces. It also considers the Comuns' relationship to Podemos and their prospects of growing beyond the city, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona and across Catalonia.

Author : Steven Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527573605
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and Nation in 21st Century Catalonia written by Steven Byrne and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an overview of the ongoing debate regarding nationalism, globalisation, secessionism and languages in 21st century Catalonia. At the heart of the book is a set of interlocking questions relating to socio-political issues in sub-state nations seeking independence in the 21st century.

Author : Caroline Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000062589
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Territorial Politics and the Party System in Spain: written by Caroline Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Western Europe, the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath not only brought economic havoc but also, in turn, intense political upheaval. Many of the political manifestations of the crisis seen in other Western and especially Southern European countries also hit Spain, where challenger parties caused unprecedented parliamentary fragmentation, resulting in four general elections in under four years from 2015 onwards. Yet Spain, a decentralised state where extensive powers are devolved to 17 regions known as ‘autonomous communities’, also stood out from its neighbours due to the importance of the territorial dimension of politics in shaping the political expression of the crisis. This book explains how and why the territorial dimension of politics contributed to shaping party system continuity and change in Spain in the aftermath of the financial crisis, with a particular focus on party behaviour. The territorial dimension encompasses the demands for ever greater autonomy or even sovereignty coming from certain parties within the historic regions of the Basque Country, Catalonia and, to a lesser extent, Galicia. It also encompasses where these historic regions sit within the broader dynamics of intergovernmental relations across Spain’s 17 autonomous communities in total, and how these dynamics contribute to shaping party strategies and behaviour in Spain. Such features became particularly salient in the aftermath of the financial crisis since this coincided with, and indeed accelerated, the rise of the independence movement in Catalonia.

Author : Kathryn Ann Woolard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190258624
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singular and Plural written by Kathryn Ann Woolard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn Woolard develops a framework for analyzing ideologies of linguistic authority and uses it to illuminate the politics of language in Spain and Catalonia, where Catalan jostles with Castilian for legitimacy. Longitudinal research across decades of political autonomy contextualizes this ethnographic study of the social meaning of Catalan in the 21st century. Part I lays out the ideologies of linguistic authenticity, anonymity, and naturalism that typically underpin linguistic authority in the modern western world, and gives an overview of a shift in the ideological grounding of linguistic authority in contemporary Catalonia. Part II examines discourses in the media surrounding three public linguistic controversies: an immigrant president's linguistic competence, a municipal festival, and an international book fair. Part III explores individuals' linguistic practices and views, drawing on classroom ethnographies and interviews with two generations of young people from the same high school. The book argues that there is an ongoing shift at both public and personal levels away from the ethnolinguistic authenticity that powered relations in the early transition to political autonomy, and toward new discourses of anonymity, rooted cosmopolitanism, and authenticity understood as a project rather than a matter of origins and essence. This shift is reflected in the current sovereignty movement.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499105
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unrecognized Entities written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book comprehensively discusses legal and political issues of non-recognized entities in the context of international and European Law, combining perspectives of international and European law with those of the non-recognized entities themselves.

Author : Christopher Heath Wellman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521849159
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Secession written by Christopher Heath Wellman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 book presents an argument for the right of groups to secede, offering a thorough and unapologetic defense.