Paradoxes of Populism: Troubles of the West and Nationalism's Second Coming by Ulf Hedetoft

Author:Ulf Hedetoft [Hedetoft, Ulf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785272141
Google: PY6ZyAEACAAJ
Goodreads: 52155943
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2020-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1Massive street protests on May 15, 2011, in Puerto del Sol, Madrid, against the Spanish regime and the legitimacy of the Spanish government. It led to the creation of the populist, left-leaning Podemos party and stoked the flames of the Catalan independence movement. See, e.g., El Pais in 2015: https://elpais.com/elpais/2015/05/15/inenglish/1431703911_191382.html. Accessed January 22, 2019.

2See, e.g., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-catalonia/in-spain-economic-crisis-fans-catalan-separatism-idUSBRE88J06S20120920. Accessed January 22, 2019.

3See https://www.voanews.com/a/catalan-separatists-divided-a-year-after-vote-block-roads/4594452.html. Accessed December 2, 2018. And http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/World/2018/Oct-13/466204-once-united-catalonias-separatists-start-to-break-ranks.ashx. Accessed December 5, 2018.

4See https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/catalonia-independence/544065/. Accessed December 7, 2018.

5See https://www.elnacional.cat/en/news/puigdemont-copenhague-debate_231648_102.html. Accessed December 18, 2018.

6See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/world/europe/spain-catalonia-independence-carles-puigdemont.html. Accessed January 22, 2019. My emphasis.

7See, e.g., https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/this-is-not-between-catalonia-and-spain-it-s-catalans-against-catalans-1.3643705.AccessedJanuary 17, 2019.

8See, e.g., http://www.un.org/en/decolonization/declaration.shtml. Accessed January 22, 2019.

9“The Free Catalan Territory are [sic] those declared municipalities or regions of Catalonia that had approved a motion in a plenary session by the councillors of the town or the region council, as they represent the municipality’s local authority. Such motions declare that Spanish laws and regulations are considered provisional, waiting for the Government and Parliament of Catalonia to enact new Catalan laws after having assumed national sovereignty, and therefore turning Catalonia into an independent state.

Free Catalan Territory (in Catalan, Territori Català Lliure) was the expression chosen by the councillors of Sant Pere de Torelló in order to define the status quo of the municipality on September 3, 2012, and was also the first town in Catalonia to give itself this name. From its new condition, the council of Sant Pere de Torelló announced that the October 12 holiday becomes an ordinary weekday, directly conflicting [with] the Spanish legislation.” From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Catalan_Territory. Accessed January 23, 2019.

10See, e.g., https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_sovereignty_and_of_the_right_to_decide_of_the_people_of_Catalonia. Accessed January 18, 2019.

11See, e.g., https://www.marketplace.org/2017/09/29/economy/big-reason-catalonia-wants-secede-economic-richest-regions-in-spain. Accessed January 15, 2019.

12The Vox Party won 12 seats in the regional parliament in December 2018. See https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46422036. Accessed January 21, 2019.

13See Elliott (2018) for an incisive historical comparison between separatism in Scotland and Catalonia.

14See, e.g., Jerry White’s review, in The Irish Times, September 29, 2018, of Scots and Catalans by J. H. Elliott, where White argues that “I also don’t accept his caricature of the movement for full independence as ‘the preserve of the political class and of the middle and professional classes’, another common rhetorical feint among the elite political class everywhere” (White 2018).

15See, e.g., http://www.geocurrents.info/geopolitics/autonomous-zones/the-ruralurban-divide-in-catalonias-2015-election. Accessed January 22, 2019.

16“The secessionist threat will also shine a light on just what kind of economic policies any independent region would pursue, given the disparate groups that back independence, from anti-capitalist anarchists to centre-right nationalists. ‘The liberals want less bureaucracy, the middle class wants less regulation and the anarchists want a socialist dream of a leftist participatory democracy,’ adds Mr Otero.” From Khan (2017), see https://www.ft.com/content/2c4aa308-aa63-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97.Accessed January 9, 2019.

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