Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?; Perspectives on Nationhood, Identity, and Belonging in Europe

ISBN-13: 9781787073043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 442 str.

Susana Belenguer; Nicola Brady

Opis

Interrogating the history of identity conflict in the European context, the authors bring an array of methodological approaches to analyses of the many intersecting political, cultural and economic factors that influence the formation of nationhood and identity, and the resurgence of nationalism in Europe in the early 21^st Century.

Spis treści

Preface

ADRIAN GUELKE

Introduction

SUSANA BAYÓ BELENGUER AND NICOLA BRADY

The Basque Country within Spain and Europe: Proposals of the Basque Nationalist Party during the Spanish Transition to Democracy (1975-1980)

LEYRE ARRIETA ALBERDI

Nationalism: In Correspondence with Professor Xosé Manuel Núñez Seixas

SUSANA BAYÓ BELENGUER AND NICOLA BRADY

Enlargement from Within? Secession and EU Membership

EMMANUEL DALLE MULLE

Flagging the Nation

GORKA ETXEBARRIA

Al tyempo del kuechko dulse: History, Language, Identity in
Enrique Soporta y Beja's account of Jewish Life in Salonika

KATERINA GARCIA

Patria and Citizenship: Primo de Rivera, Caciques and Military
Delegados, Spain 1923-1924

RICHARD GOW

Becoming Catalan through Speech: Narrative Cultivation of Self among
Catalan Nationalists

MARK FRIIS HAU

Russian Geopolitical Thinking and the Ukrainian Crisis: Neo-Imperialist
Aspirations or a mere Survival Strategy?

CARLES JOVANí GIL

Contested Unionism along the Irish Border at the Time of Partition
DANIEL PURCELL

Re-Building Bridges: Nations and States in present-day Spain

JOAN ROMERO, JOAQUÍN MARTÍN CUBAS, MARGARITA SOLER,
JOSÉ MARÍA VIDAL, CARLES JOVANÍ

Separatism in the New Millenium: Looking Back to See Forward

ROBERT SAUNDERS

The Catalan Pro-Independence Movement: Impact on the International
Agenda and Media Pluralism

MARÇAL SINTES-OLIVELLA, JOSEP-LLUÍS MICÓ-SANZ,
FRANCESC-MARC ÁLVARO VIDAL

Pulling Together Romanians: Post-2007 Relations between Citizenship
and Nationhood

SORINA SOARE

The Democratic Principle, Secession and Self-Determination in the
Practice of International Law: Lessons Learned

IÑIGO URRUTIA

Ethical Nationalism: Social Citizenship in Multi-National States

ERIK VANDERHEYDEN

O autorze

Dr Susana Bayó Belenguer is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, where she teaches contemporary Spanish politics and history, and the representation of history in literature and visual media. Her publications have centred on the intellectual and writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and on the Spanish Civil War. She is member of the editorial board of Ediciones Alfar (Spain) and of a Research Network, which is officially recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Education, on the International Brigades.

Dr Nicola Brady is a Research Associate with the Department of Hispanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Her Ph.D. examined the response of the Catholic Hierarchy to political violence in Northern Ireland (1921-1973) and the Basque Country (1936-1975). She is currently employed as General Secretary to the Irish Council of Churches where her work has a particular focus on the contribution of Christian churches to peace, reconciliation and social justice in Ireland, as well as in a wider European and global context. In 2019 she was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship to examine the role of churches and faith communities in overcoming political polarization and social exclusion in the United States. She is a Director of Christian Aid Ireland and the Maximilian Kolbe Foundation.