TITLE:
The New Components of Catalan Nationalism
AUTHORS:
Erika Jaráiz, Ángel Cazorla, José Manuel Rivera
KEYWORDS:
Nationalism, Catalonia, Process, Identity
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.9 No.1,
January
18,
2019
ABSTRACT: In this paper we identify four fundamental factors in the construction of
the nation-preconditions, political opportunity structure, mobilization and
speech-, integrated by a series of elements that serve as indicators for the
approach to our explanatory model. With our analysis we demonstrate that in
Catalonia nationalism is explained by contextual elements, elements of
mobilisation, fundamentally the leadership, and by the “process” itself. These
findings allow us to talk about a Catalan nationalism constructed on the bases
of reasons that have to do with unjust treatment by Spanish governments, trust
and expectations.