Overview
- Addresses both academic and public concerns about separatism, nationalism, and the crisis of the nation state
- Applies a diversity of approaches to the case of Spain and Catalonia but also expanded to Europe
- Looks at an interdisciplinary topic covering political, social and cultural approaches
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Understanding Sovereignty and its People
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Understanding Collective Identities and Actions
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Understanding Internationalisation
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Conclusion
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About this book
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.
Reviews
-Simon Tomey, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol, UK
"The Catalan referendum on independence, the severe police brutality towards peaceful Catalan voters and the following incarceration of elected politicians and civil leaders, brought the Catalan conflict to the knowledge of people all over the world. Agustin’s thoughtful and inspiring book of interdisciplinary analysis provides valuable insights into the historic, as well as the contemporary roots of the conflict. It reveals how questions of nationality and sovereignty intermingle with economic and political issues. And how feedback between internal political rivalries in Spain and Catalonia, as well as international reactions, influenced the development of the conflict – leading to the existing polarized deadlock."
-Pelle Dragsted, Political Commentator, Denmark
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty
Editors: Óscar García Agustín
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54867-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54866-7Published: 15 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54869-8Published: 16 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54867-4Published: 14 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 260
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Political History, Memory Studies, Constitutional Law, Electoral Politics