The Rise of Catalan Independence: Spain's Territorial Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781472459848 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 194 str.

Andrew Dowling

Opis

Spain, one of Europe's oldest nation-states, is in serious difficulty with Catalan secession becoming the most important issue as economic recovery is gradually achieved. During the 20th Century Catalonia was frequently cited as a model for the successful devolution of power from central government to the regions and seemed to embody the successful construction of a political community based on autonomy within a state but the new century has been marked by an ever-growing independence movement. Pro-independence mobilization has produced a rupture in political relations with the rest of Spain leading to a sovereignty struggle with Madrid. The Catalan question is not only a Spanish problem though, it has direct implications for European integration as the economic crisis puts severe strain on the European project and the traditional nation-state model.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: History and context Chapter 2: Culture, language and identity Chapter 3: The crisis of Catalanism Chapter 4: Constructing a movement for independence Chapter 5: Catalonia, north of the south, south of the north: The economic crisis and its consequences Conclusions

O autorze

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).