University of Mississippi eGrove Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Theses Honors College) 2015 Catalunya No Es Espanya?: Examining Catalan Nationalism Shiloh Jaggers Jones University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis Part of the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Jones, Shiloh Jaggers, "Catalunya No Es Espanya?: Examining Catalan Nationalism" (2015). Honors Theses. 862. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/862 This Undergraduate Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College) at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CATALUNYA NO ES ESPANYA?: EXAMINING CATALAN NATIONALISM © 2015 by Shiloh Jaggers Jones Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for completion of the Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies Croft Institute for International Studies Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College The University of Mississippi University, MS May 2015 Approved: Advisor: Dr. Alice Cooper Reader: Dr. William Schenck Reader: Dr. Luanne Buchanan Jones 1 ABSTRACT Catalonia is one of a few European separatist movements that have real significance in the European political sphere. Separatism is new to Catalonia, however Catalan nationalism is not. Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, this thesis explains that the reason the Catalan nationalist movement is so strong and demands the attention it is receiving in the Spanish national and international communities is the long- standing political, economic, and cultural foundations that have been building even before Catalonia was formed.