Spain: For Catalonia!
When does the confrontation between the government in Barcelona and the government in Madrid stop being an intra-Spanish issue? When one realises that the task at hand is neither contempt for the constitution nor a backwards-oriented issue of sectionalism that Spain has to suppress. And if one reali...
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doaj-35469b442ca944809c50027a43fa83cf2020-11-25T01:00:11ZengThe International Academic ForumIAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies2187-49052187-49052019-04-01415610.22492/ijcs.4.1.01Spain: For Catalonia!Christoph Menke0Alexander Garcia Düttmann1Goethe University Frankfurt, GermanyBerlin University of the Arts, GermanyWhen does the confrontation between the government in Barcelona and the government in Madrid stop being an intra-Spanish issue? When one realises that the task at hand is neither contempt for the constitution nor a backwards-oriented issue of sectionalism that Spain has to suppress. And if one realises that Europe's self-understanding is at stake here, the confrontation becomes an issue of the self-understanding of a European democracy. NB: This article was originally published in German in DIE ZEIT (Nr. 44/2017, October 26, 2017. https://www.zeit.de/2017/44/spanien-katalonien-unabhaengigkeit-demokratie-europa). Translation by Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Holger Briel and Michael High.https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-cultural-studies/volume-4-issue-1/article-1/CataloniademocracypoliticsCatalan referendumSpainidentity |
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When does the confrontation between the government in Barcelona and the government in Madrid stop being an intra-Spanish issue? When one realises that the task at hand is neither contempt for the constitution nor a backwards-oriented issue of sectionalism that Spain has to suppress. And if one realises that Europe's self-understanding is at stake here, the confrontation becomes an issue of the self-understanding of a European democracy.
NB: This article was originally published in German in DIE ZEIT (Nr. 44/2017, October 26, 2017. https://www.zeit.de/2017/44/spanien-katalonien-unabhaengigkeit-demokratie-europa). Translation by Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Holger Briel and Michael High. |
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