This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish states 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.
Part I Introduction.-
1. The Catalan Way to Independence and the
Spanish-Catalan Conflict (Óscar Garcķa Agustķn and Malayna Raftopoulos).-
Part II Understanding Sovereignty and its People.-
2. The Independence Procés
in Catalonia: the Triple Spanish Crisis and an Unresolved Question of
Sovereignty (Gemma Ubasart-Gonzįlez).-
3. Banal Populism. Nationalism and
Everyday Victimhood in the Spanish-Catalan Clash (Paolo Cossarini).-
4.
Discussing Ethnos, Polis, Demos and Cives in the Context of Spanish Politics
(Ignacio Brescó and Alberto Rosa).- Part III Understanding Collective
Identities and Actions.-
5. Moving towards the Future, Returning to the Past:
Catalan Collective Memories in Times of Unstable Hegemony (Óscar Garcķa
Agustķn and Malayna Raftopoulos).-
6. Repression and Democracy amidst the
Eventful 1-O Referendum (Donatella della Porta, H. Jonas Gunzelmann and
Martķn Portos).-
7. Quixote in Catalonia (Bue Rübner Hansen).- Part IV
Understanding Internationalisation.-
8. Catalan Independence as an Internal
Affair? Europeanization and Secession after the 2017 Unilateral Declaration
of Independence in Catalonia (Angela K. Bourne).-
9. Someone Elses Crisis?
UK Press Coverage of the Failed 2017 Catalan Declaration of Independence
(Hugh ODonnell and Fernando León Solķs).-
10. The Catalan Issue from a
Comparative Constitutional Perspective (Sabrina Ragone and Gabriel Moreno
Gonzįlez).- Part V Conclusion.-
11. Catalan independence and the crisis of
sovereignty (Óscar Garcķa Agustķn).
Óscar Garcķa Agustķn 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).
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