The Rise of Catalan Independence Spain’s Territorial Crisis Federalism Studies Series
Auteur : Dowling Andrew
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.
Andrew Dowling is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Cardiff University. He has previously written Catalonia since the Spanish Civil War: Reconstructing the Nation (2012), which was published in Catalan as La Reconstrucció Nacional de Catalunya, 1939-2012 (2013).
Date de parution : 12-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 03-2018
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de The Rise of Catalan Independence :
Mots-clés :
Catalan Independence; Prat De La Riba; Catalan Society; Assemblea De Catalunya; Catalan Political; Spanish Nationalism; Esquerra Republicana De Catalunya; Catalan Nationalism; Catalan Party System; Lliga Regionalista; Catalan Economy; Enric Prat De La Riba; Catalan Socialist Party; PSC; Spanish Language; Junts Pel; Informal Grand Coalition; Eta Lead; Pasqual Maragall; Eta Ceasefire; Catalan Firmament; Catalan Education System; Spanish Supreme Court; Late Francoism; Catalan Independence Movement