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Online Mobilization and Perspective Taking in Contentious Politics
Online mobilization and perspective taking in contentious politics Camilo Cristancho-Mantilla* PhD candidate in Political science Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [email protected] Working paper – Comments welcome Abstract This article presents an approach to the intergroup contact theory focusing on the value of perspective taking as a central premise in a broad conception of democracy as it implies acknowledging conflict and having respect for political adversaries. I look into protest mobilization and the role that movements and civil society organizations play as mediators in contentious politics in the internet and argue that online protest mobilization processes provide bridging between political divides as protest conveyors need to counter-argue adversarial arguments and frames. Three protest events in Spain are studied through surveys of protesters and through network analysis of issue actors online in order to link individual attitudes with intergroup interaction. This approach provides preliminary evidence to support the theory that online mobilization serves as a contact space which affects the disposition of protest participants for considering opposing stances in political conflicts. Keywords: perspective taking, intergroup contact theory, political disagreement, attitudes, mobilization, online politics, social movements To be presented at the X Congress of the Asociación Española de Ciencia Política, Universidad de Murcia, September 7-9, 2011 ______________________ * I gratefully acknowledge financial support from a PhD research grant provided by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the POLAT research group. Data for the protest surveys is part of the EUROCORES project EUI2008- 03812 - Caught in the Act of protest: Contextualizing Contestation. 1 Introduction Internet use for political mobilization is increasingly capturing the attention of multiple disciplines as many expectations for the effects of online media on civic engagement need to be tested. -
Ich Country Would You Place This Point?
THE RISE OF EUROPE'S LITTLE NATIONS BY DAVID T. GIES t their outset at least, the 1992 lieved an advertisement, designed and paid Summer Olympics in Barcelona for by the Generalitat, the governing body of appeared to be organized by Catalonia, that appeared in several interna- people who had nationalism, not tional magazines. This provocative piece of sports, foremost in mind. Consider the curious self-promotion located Barcelona in Catalonia, fact that the three official languages of the "a country in Spain," the copy read, "wit11 its games were English, French, and Catalan. own culture, language, and identity." In case Why Catalan and not Spanish? Because Olym- readers missed the point, the advertisement pic Committee rules allow for the use of Eng- depicted the "country" of Catalonia in sharply lish, French, and the language of the country colored relief on an otherwise borderless map hosting the games. More to the point, the or- of Europe. ganizers had no doubt that Catalan was the The advertisement was only part of a language of their country. campaign by the Catalan organizers of the But Catalonia a count;y? Yes, if one be- Olympic Games to inform the world of their ICH COUNTRY WOULD YOU PLACE THIS POINT? 70 WQ WINTER 1994 independence from the Spanish state-the cartoonists. In the first block of the cartoon, the very state that had contributed nearly 70 per- question, "In which country would you place cent of the funding for the games. To be sure, this point," was reproduced as in the original. the Spanish language was heard throughout In the second block, the point, Barcelona, is the games, but the Catalan national anthem revealed to be a livid boil on the backside of played before the Spanish anthem as the Spain's president, Felipe Gonzhlez. -
Terrorismo Y Autonomía. El Caso Balear (1989-1991)
Terrorismo y autonomía. El caso balear (1989-1991) Miquel Amengual Joan Pau Jordà Presentación Desde la muerte del general Franco y la instauración de la democracia, en las Islas Baleares se han dado diversos episodios de violencia protagonizados tanto por grupos de ultraderecha como por organizaciones independentistas. Sin embargo, el único grupo armado que realizó sus actividades recibiendo cierto apoyo estable fue la organización armada catalana Terra Lliure (TL). Esta organización, que desarrolló sus acciones en las Islas a lo largo de 1989, contó con un entramado de organizaciones más o menos extenso que, en Mallorca y Eivissa, apoyaba la lucha armada. La comunicación que aquí presentamos, busca analizar las causas del surgimiento de la violencia armada en Baleares centrándose en la evolución del independentismo radical en las Islas. Para la realización de esta investigación hemos recorrido a una metodología mixta. Por un lado hemos realizado un vaciado bibliográfico sobre las organizaciones y la violencia terrorista desde la transición hasta los años noventa (Muñoz, 1982; Aulestia 2005) y sobre Terra Lliure y su contexto histórico (Fernández, 1985; Vilaregut 2004; Buch 2007). Por otro lado, hemos trabajado con fuentes primarias, como archivos de prensa (Diario de Mallorca, Diario 16 y Diario Baleares/Diari de Balears), documentación de la época, como atestados y documentación judicial vinculadas a la organización Terra Lliure, así como su boletín interno, Alerta, y diversos panfletos de propaganda pertenecientes a diferentes grupos de extrema izquierda (como la Liga Comunista Revolucionaària (LCR), la organización juvenil Maulets o el Moviment en Defensa de la Terra (MDT)). Finalmente, hemos realizado una entrevista a Macià Manera, activista independentista mallorquín vinculado a TL. -
Those Who Came and Those Who Left the Territorial Politics of Migration
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Cadmus, EUI Research Repository Department of Political and Social Sciences Those who came and those who left The Territorial Politics of Migration in Scotland and Catalonia Jean-Thomas Arrighi de Casanova Thesis submitted for assessment with a view to obtaining the degree of Doctor of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute Florence, February 2012 EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE Department of Political and Social Sciences Those who came and those who left The Territorial Politics of Migration in Scotland and Catalonia Jean-Thomas Arrighi de Casanova Thesis submitted for assessment with a view to obtaining the degree of Doctor of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute Examining Board: Prof. Rainer Bauböck, EUI (Supervisor) Prof. Michael Keating, EUI (Co-supervisor) Dr Nicola McEwen, University of Edinburgh Prof. Andreas Wimmer, UCLA © 2012, Jean-Thomas Arrighi de Casanova No part of this thesis may be copied, reproduced or transmitted without prior permission of the author ABSTRACT Whilst minority nationalism and migration have been intensely studied in relative isolation from one another, research examining their mutual relationship is still scarce. This dissertation aims to fill this gap in the literature by exploring how migration politics are being fought over not only across society but also across territory in two well-researched cases of protracted nationalist mobilisation, Catalonia and Scotland. It meets three objectives: First, it introduces a theoretical framework accounting for sub-state elites’ and administrations’ boundary-making strategies in relation to immigrants and emigrants. -
The Spanish Government and Subsequently Suspended by the Constitutional Court Until It Ruled on the Issue
CatalExit a Matrix Game about the 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis by Tim Price. Introduction This is a Matrix Game intended to explore the issues and options surrounding the 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis, in the run up to Regional Elections on 21 December 17 to appoint a new Catalan Parliament following the suspension of the previous Parliament. It is the product of only a few hours exploratory game design taken from the Connections Netherlands 2017 conference on 14 Nov 2017. Background The 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis, also known as the Catalan crisis, is an ongoing political conflict between the Government of Spain and the Government of Catalonia under President Carles Puigdemont—the legal government of Catalonia until 28 October 2017—over the issue of Catalan independence, starting after a law intending to allow a Catalan independence referendum was denounced by the Spanish government and subsequently suspended by the Constitutional Court until it ruled on the issue. The events have been described as "one of the worst political crises in modern Spanish history". Puigdemont's government announced that neither central Spanish authorities nor the courts would halt their plans and that it intended to hold the vote anyway, sparking a legal backlash that quickly spread from the Spanish and Catalan governments to Catalan municipalities—as local mayors were urged by the Generalitat to provide logistical support and help for the electoral process to be carried out—as well as to the Constitutional Court, the High Court of Justice of Catalonia and state prosecutors. By 15 September, as pro-Catalan independence parties began their referendum campaigns, the Spanish government had launched an all-out legal offensive to thwart the upcoming vote, including threats of a financial takeover of much of the Catalan budget, police seizing pro-referendum posters, pamphlets and leaflets which had been regarded as illegal and criminal investigations ordered on the over 700 local mayors who had publicly agreed to help stage the referendum. -
Master-Thesis-Gjelsten.Pdf
Contestation or accommodation? Catalan and Basque sub-nationalist movements compared Cristina Gjelsten Master’s thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies Department of Political Science UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Spring 2020 Supervisor: Marcus Buck Word count: 31.078 Contestation or accommodation? Catalan and Basque sub-nationalist movements compared I © Cristina Gjelsten 2020 Contestation or accommodation? Cristina Gjelsten http://www.duo.uio.no Word count: 31.078 II Abstract Nationalist conflicts are a recurrent source of concern for disparate countries, Spain is one of them. Despite sharing the same statewide context, the Catalan and Basque sub-nationalist movements have evolved quite differently in the last years. Whereas Catalonia has reached an unprecedented increase of secessionism in roughly the last decade, the Basque Country has in the same timeframe experienced the easing of its sub-nationalist demands. Connecting with the broader field of nationalist movements, this thesis aims to fill a gap by analyzing this relatively unexplored dimension of contrasting the political momentums of Catalan and Basque sub-nationalism. To this end, this thesis provides more nuanced understanding of the processes and conditions (causal mechanisms) behind these differing political outcomes. Thus, the research question asks which conditions fueled the escalation of Catalan secessionist aspirations, and conversely, eased such demands in the Basque Country in the timeframe 2009-2019. The basis for this study is an eclectic theoretical framework which connects broader theory on nationalism with top-down and bottom-up approaches, social movements and non-violence theories. For that, I have combined comparative analysis with process tracing. In doing so, I take Richard Gillespie’s concepts of accommodation and contestation towards the central state and apply them by dividing the Basque and Catalan trajectories into phases. -
El 'Vacío Discursivo' Sobre La Independencia. Un Análisis Del
El ‘vacío discursivo’ sobre la independencia. Un análisis del mensaje periodístico durante las elecciones catalanas de 2006 y 2010 Arantxa Capdevila ([email protected]). Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona Enric Castelló ([email protected]). Unversitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona Resumen Esta ponencia presenta los primeros resultados de una investigación que tiene como objetivo prioritario detectar los diferentes discursos sobre la independencia presentes en la prensa de referencia en Cataluña durante las campañas de las elecciones al Parlamento catalán de 2006 y de 2010. La principal hipótesis del trabajo es que el tema de la independencia ha tenido una presencia y un tratamiento mediático muy diferenciado en 2006 y en 2010 en relación a la existencia que este tema tenía en la agenda política y ciudadana. La metodología usada en este trabajo es doble, por un lado se cuantifica la aparición del término independencia y, por otro, se realiza un análisis argumentativo y retórico aplicado a todas las piezas periodísticas publicadas en cuatro diarios: El Mundo, El País, Avui y La Vanguardia. Del estudio se desprende que el tema de la independencia no centró la campaña de 2006, mientras que tuvo una mayor repercusión en términos cuantitativos en la de 2010. Aún así, el análisis cualitativo indica que la presencia de la temática continua siendo muy superficial y banalizada, lo que denominamos “vacío discursivo”. Palabras clave Independencia, agenda setting, argumentación, discurso, prensa. Nota biográfica de los/as autores/es Arantxa Capdevila es doctora en Comunicación Audiovisual por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). En la actualidad es profesora agregada en la Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona. -
“Si Me Hablas En Catalán Se Suspende El Juicio”, Els Drets Lingüístics En Via Morta
Title: The Catalan Case II. Thirty-seven new serious cases of linguistic discrimination in the public administrations in Spain."If you address me in Catalan I'll suspend the proceedings". Castrated language rights in Europe. Study experts: Òscar-Adrià Ibáñez Ferreté and Eloi Torrents Vivó Collaborators: Mireia Casals Isart, Marc Cristià Castellví; Bernat Gasull i Roig and Aida Goixart Andrés March 2016 Barcelona Plataforma per la Llengua (Pro-Language Platform) Via Laietana, 48 A, principal 2a 08003 Barcelona 93 321 18 03 www.plataforma-llengua.cat 1 Barcelona, 11 September, 1924 Note: this story includes a conversations that takes place in two languages: the police officers speak Spanish at all times, while Mr. Valls and Gaudí answer in Catalan. At 8.05 on the morning of 11 September, 1924, Mr. Valls, as he entered the church of Sant Just, was stopped by a police officer, who asked him1: "Where are you going?" "I'm going to mass". "You can't go in here. If you want to go to mass, you'll have to go to another church". "But I want to hear mass in this church, Sant Just". "Well, you can't go through this door. Try the other door". Mr. Valls went to the other door in carrer de la Ciutat, where another policeman refused him entry, and a short discussion ensued. Just at that moment, Mr. Gaudí arrived, and resolutely tried to enter the church. The policeman stopped him, asking: "Where are you going?" "I'm going to mass". "You can't go in here". "Yes I can". -
Opinió Diari De Girona
DILLUNS, 9 DE JULIOL DE 2012 | Diari de Girona 12 Director: Jordi Xargayó i Teixidor. Caps de redacció: Josep Callol (Comarques i Política), David Céspedes (Girona i Suplements), Alfons Petit (Opinió i Dominical). Seccions: Jesús Badenes (Girona), Oriol Puig (Economia), Jordi Roura (Esports), Daniel Bonaventura (Cultura i Espectacles), Adrià Boix (Disseny). Gerent: Fèlix Noguera i Carrillo. Distribució i Promocions: Enric Cullell. Diari de Girona Imprimeix: Impressions Intercomarcals SA. Distribució: Grup Logístic Vilarroya, S.L. Telèfon: 972 40 06 30. Dipòsit legal GE-2-1958. Any XLIV. FUNDAT EL 1889 EDITA DIARI DE GIRONA, S.A. CONSELLER DELEGAT: José Manuel Vaquero DIRECTOR GENERAL: J.L. Rodríguez Artime DIRECTOR GENERAL DE GESTIÓ: José Manuel Atiénzar DdG SUBDIRECTOR GENERAL DE GESTIÓ: Francisco J. Guixá Opinió accepti iniciar la recollida d’un milió de jol parla d’un xoc de trens. Perquè Espa- signatures per tramitar la urgència d’a- nya pugui concedir el dret d’autodetermi- questa legislació. La campanya per a la re- nació interna (auotonomia) i externa (in- collida de signatures seria una bona pro- dependència) a alguna nacionalitat –Eus- moció per a l’autodeterminació. A més a kadi o Catalunya– caldria modificar la més, si mai Catalunya votés la indepen- Constitució d’acord amb els complexos Lluís Busquets i Grabulosa dència, Europa no es trobaria en calçotets mecanismes que preveu el seu article 168 [email protected] a l’hora de decidir què fer. per a qüestions com la monarquia, la ban- L’AMI va ser una entitat impulsada per dera o la unitat d’Espanya (i també po- l’alcalde de Vic, Josep M. -
Milena Kojić MODEL of the REGIONAL STATE in EUROPE
University of Belgrade University La Sapienza, Rome University of Sarajevo Master Program State Management and Humanitarian Affairs Milena Kojić MODEL OF THE REGIONAL STATE IN EUROPE - A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WITH FOCUS ON THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA Master Thesis Belgrade, August 2010 University of Belgrade University La Sapienza, Rome University of Sarajevo Master Program State Management and Humanitarian Affairs Milena Kojić MODEL OF THE REGIONAL STATE IN EUROPE - A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WITH FOCUS ON THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA Master Thesis Members of the Commission: Assoc. Prof. dr. Zoran Krstić, Mentor Prof. Emer. dr. Marija Bogdanović, President Prof. dr. Dragan Simić, Member Defense date: __________________ Mark: __________________ Belgrade, August 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………......…1 PART I 1. Key terms and basic theoretical categories .....................................................................4 2. Basic models of state organization .................................................................................7 a) Consociational state .............................................................................................7 b) Unitary state – simple state ................................................................................10 c) Federation – complex state ……………………………………........................11 d) Regional state – tertium genus ………………………………...........................14 PART II 1. Republic of Italy……………………............................................................................18 -
Nou Estat D'europa Globalisation, Language and Identity in Catalonia
Nou Estat d’Europa Globalisation, language and identity in Catalonia: a contemporary perspective. by Steven Byrne Thesis presented to the University of Limerick for the award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Supervisors: Dr David Atkinson and Dr Máiréad Moriarty External: Dr Agurtzane Elordui Submitted to the University of Limerick, May 2019. Abstract The processes associated with globalisation have seen Catalonia become an ethnolinguistically diverse region. Additionally, a vibrant civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought a renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan or Spanish in 21st century Catalonia. The current study seeks to address a gap in the literature by investigating the attitudes of members of independence organisations toward the Catalan and Spanish languages against the backdrop of the Catalan independence movement. This research examines the respondents’ language attitudes from a language orientations perspective, using Ruiz’s (1984, 2010) framework of language-as-a-problem and language-as-a-resource to unpack the complexities of the situation in present-day Catalonia. This research was conducted with members of independence organisations operating in the city of Girona and involved qualitative research methods, specifically focus groups and narrative interviews. This study indicates that a fuller understanding of the complex situation in Catalonia may be facilitated through qualitative methodologies, which have the potential to explore attitudes in-depth. The analysis of the data reveals a diversity of attitudes toward both Catalan and Spanish, with both languages being mobilised in diverse combinations for a wide range of purposes. -
Entre Franco I Terra Lliure Durant Quatre Dècades Una Caravel·La Va Acompanyar El Monument a Colom, Fins Que Va Acabar Destruïda Després De Diversos Atemptats
Política | Bernat Ferrer | Actualitzat el 20/04/2013 a les 23:59 Entre Franco i Terra Lliure Durant quatre dècades una caravel·la va acompanyar el monument a Colom, fins que va acabar destruïda després de diversos atemptats La reproducció de la caravel·la Santa María que estava atracada davant del monument a Colom. L'Ajuntament de Barcelona reobrirà al juny (http://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/53158/monument/cristofol/colom/tornara/obrir/portes/al/juny) el monument a Cristòfol Colom, tancat des de fa un any perquè uns turistes van quedar atrapats a l'interior de l'ascensor. Però, acompanyant al monument, fa anys que hi havia atracada al port una reproducció de la caravel·la Santa Maria que l'aventurer va utilitzar en els seu viatge cap al Nou Món. La reproducció va ser inaugurada pel general Franco el 6 d'octubre del 1952 i, des del primer moment, va tenir tant partidaris com detractors, que veien el vaixell com un símbol espanyolista. Al cap dels anys, va estar constantment al punt de mira de Terra Lliure. Fins que, l'any 1991, un còctel molotov la va deixar tan malmesa que els seus propietaris, la Diputació de Barcelona, van optar per retirar-la del port i enfonsar-la per sempre més. "La caravel·la era un símbol, i calia abatre'l", explica a Nació Digital l'autor dels dos primers atacs a l'embarcació, Miquel Casals. Per bé que la justícia espanyola i la mitologia independentista atribueixen a Casals l'autoria dels quatre atemptats que va patir la caravel·la, ell puntualitza: "Jo vaig intentar-ho dues vegades, les dues primeres, el 1987, i les dues vegades vaig fallar.