The idea of<i>volksgeist</i>in the formation of Catalan nationalist ideology

Llobera, Josep R.

doi:10.1080/01419870.1983.9993417

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“…1985). The 'muntanyesos' in their efforts to find a way out from the crisis of traditional values, and of the ancien regime, oscillated between a concept of the nation as an ethnic community identifiable by a set of distinctive features, which characterised the Renaixenga, and the traditional vision inherited from the past of the nation as a community of subjects under the control of a superior authority, a conception which follows from the idea of the divine right of monarchy (Llobera, J.R. 1983). They share the first meaning with the conservative model of the Renaixenqa, which followed the romantic paradigm in envisaging human communities in terms of sets of distinctive traits.…”

Section: Rural Traditionalism Between the Counter-revolution And Bourmentioning

confidence: 98%

Rural Traditionalism and Conservative Nationalism in Catalonia, 1865-1900

Fradera

1990

Critique of Anthropology

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Section: Rural Traditionalism Between the Counter-revolution And Bourmentioning

confidence: 98%

Rural Traditionalism and Conservative Nationalism in Catalonia, 1865-1900

Fradera

1990

Critique of Anthropology

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“…The framing of peoplehood by Catalan sovereignism has resolutely been not a primordialist, but an open and voluntarist undertaking. While it is true that there was a Herderian undercurrent in the early period of Catalan nationalism in the late 19th century (Llobera 1983), this undercurrent never attained a dominant role in Catalanism under democratic conditions, neither in the Second Republic (1931)(1932)(1933)(1934)(1935)(1936)(1937)(1938)(1939), nor in the post-Franco period after 1975. In the process leading to the present crisis between Catalonia and Spain, independentism may have made many mistakes, 8 but it can hardly be accused of ethnocentrism.…”

Section: Popular Republicanism and The People: Two Examplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Popular Republicanism versus Populism: Articulating the People

Kraus

2021

Social Sciences

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In problematic ways, populism has become a catch-all formula used with discretion to capture all kinds of discontent with democratic politics today. Populism is not only an essentially contested, but also an unavoidably blurred concept. Its recurrent use as a weapon to discredit all kinds of projects that challenge contemporary liberal democracies has led to a situation in which protest movements that aim at democratic renewal end up being conflated with opposite tendencies whose objective is a reactionary scaling down of democracy. Against this background, this article argues that both for political and for analytical purposes, the key point for distinguishing between “progressive” and “regressive” projects that address the crisis of democracy is to determine how such projects conceive of the identity of the people. Invoking the people is not per se an attribute of populism, but ultimately a feature of all kinds of democratic politics. What does make for a critical difference, though, is how peoplehood is articulated in the process of collective mobilization. The distinction becomes particularly relevant with regard to current debates on how to tackle the issue of diversity and democratic integration in Europe and North America. To substantiate this relevance, the article introduces the concept of popular republicanism, which is fleshed out by discussing two recent examples: Catalan sovereignism and the Kurdish-Turkish HDP.

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“…The construction of Catalonian identity in terms of seny has long been in the making. In its early years, Catalonian nationalism drew from “an active spiritual or psychological principle” (Llobera , 332): seny as the Catalonian Volkgeist . In the 17th and 18th centuries, Catalonian ideologists emphasized “good sense,” industriousness, and parsimoniousness to establish in‐group and out‐group boundaries with regards to the “imaginative,” “impulsive,” and “idealist” character of Castilians.…”

Section: Between Seny and Rauxa: The “Common Sense” And “Madness” Of mentioning

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Catalonia's human towers: Nationalism, associational culture, and the politics of performance

Vaczi

2016

American Ethnologist

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Spain is facing the greatest challenge in the post‐Franco era to the nation's constitutional unity, as the Catalonian government in October 2015 issued a motion to unilaterally declare Catalonia's independence. The independence movement helped build support by using a 200‐year‐old cultural performance, the building of human towers (castells). The movement discarded other cultural performances (soccer, the sardana dance, and fire festivals), drawing from the human towers’ performative iconicity, associational culture, affective dimensions, and operative values to rally disparate social groups behind independence. In using human towers, the movement envisioned a solution to the ideological divisions of nationalist politics, but the instrumentalization of culture has a contradictory effect on politics. As European secessionist movements intensify, cultural performances reveal the objectives and risks of nationalist constructions. [human towers, associational culture, nationalism, performance, iconicity, Catalonia, Spain] Espanya s'enfronta al major repte de la seva unitat constitucional de l’època post‐franquista. A l'octubre del 2015, el govern català va aprovar una moció per declarar unilateralment la independència de Catalunya. Un esdeveniment cultural amb una història de dos‐cents anys, els castells, semblen haver‐se convertit en l'emblema dominant de la sobirania catalana. El moviment independentista ho prefereix a d'altres actuacions culturals, com ara la sardana, els festivals de foc, o esportives, com el futbol. La seva cultura associativa, les seves dimensions afectives, la seva iconicitat i els seus valors escènics fan que els castells serveixin per unir grups diversos, tot expressant la voluntat d'esdevenir una nació unida i sobirana. Alhora que el moviment casteller presenta una solució a les divisions ideològiques de la política independentista, la instrumentació política de la tradició cultural pot resultar problemàtica. Tanmateix, mentre els moviments secessionistes s'intensifiquen a Europa, la comunicació cultural identitària revela els objectius i els riscos de les manifestacions sobiranistes. [castells, cultura associativa, nacionalisme, performativitat, iconicitat, Catalunya, Espanya]

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The idea ofvolksgeistin the formation of Catalan nationalist ideology

Cited by 10 publications

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Rural Traditionalism and Conservative Nationalism in Catalonia, 1865-1900

Rural Traditionalism and Conservative Nationalism in Catalonia, 1865-1900

Popular Republicanism versus Populism: Articulating the People

Catalonia's human towers: Nationalism, associational culture, and the politics of performance

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