1st Edition

The Rise of Catalan Independence Spain’s Territorial Crisis

By Andrew Dowling Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

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).

"....this study is rich in its coverage of the different aspects of the turn to independence, and most definitely a useful supplement to other studies from different academic disciplines."

Kathryn Crameri, International Journal of Iberian Studies