Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030548678
• ISBN-13: 9783030548674
• Author: Óscar García Agustín

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.

Table contents:

Part I. Introduction
1. The Catalan Way to Independence and the Spanish–Catalan Conflict
Part II. Understanding Sovereignty and its People
2. The Independence Procés in Catalonia: The Triple Spanish Crisis and an Unresolved Question of Sovereignty
3. Banal Populism: Nationalism and Everyday Victimhood in the Spanish–Catalan Clash
4. Discussing Ethnos, Polis, Demos and Cives in the Context of Spanish Politics
Part III. Understanding Collective Identities and Actions
5. Moving Towards the Future, Returning to the Past: Catalan Collective Memories in Times of Unstable Hegemony
6. Repression and Democracy Amidst the Eventful 1-O Referendum
7. Quixote in Catalonia
Part IV. Understanding Internationalisation
8. Catalan Independence as an ‘Internal Affair’? Europeanization and Secession After the 2017 Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Catalonia
9. Someone Else’s Crisis? UK Press Coverage of the Failed 2017 Catalan Declaration of Independence
10. The Catalan Issue from a Comparative Constitutional Perspective
Part V. Conclusion
11. Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty

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