The spatial turn and the history of nationalism: Nationalism between regionalism and transnational approaches

Place and local identity in the Europe of nations: Catalonia and its cities in Restoration Spain (1875–1923)

“…It is no minor detail that the creation of most of these portrait collections coincided with 'statuemania' and what has been called the 'invention' of mass-produced traditions in the period beginning in 1870 (Agulhon, 1978;Hobsbawm, 1983). These dynamics also occurred in Spain, where the last decades of the 19th century were a significant period in the forging of regional stereotypes (Storm, 2019), Spanish national culture (Peir o, 2017) and the Catalan nationalist cultural imaginary (Cattini, 2015). All this suggests that the articulation of local identities occurred at the same time as processes of region-and nation-building and was related to these processes.…”

“…It evidently cannot be ignored that what are known as the spatial turn and the cultural turn have contributed to the local dimension being viewed in a new light, at least theoretically speaking (Carasa, 2007; Confino, 2006; Núñez, 2006; Quiroga, 2014; Storm, 2019; Warf & Arias, 2009). Nevertheless, the local has been a significant focus of analysis in only a small fraction of studies dealing with collective territorial identities (Confino, 2006).…”