Against the Thesis of the “Civic Nation”: The Case of Catalonia in Contemporary Spain

Miley, Thomas Jeffrey

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“…They lack political power. Very few parliamentary deputies and senior civil servants in the Generalitat have been born outside Catalonia (Miley 2005). Far from avoiding ‘cultural ghettoes’ or class ‘fractures’, Catalan nationalism has promoted the class interests of the Catalan speaking indigenous population in national terms, in part by using language as a barrier to accessing public sector, white collar and professional jobs.…”

Section: Class Nation and Marginalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Catalan nationalism has often been marked by ethnic chauvinism from its origins, discussed by Marfany (1995) to the present (Miley 2005; MacInnes 2004). In 1976 the ‘cosmopolitan’ (Castells 1997: 46) Pujol described Andalusians (the bulk of migrants to Catalonia) as ‘ignorant’, ‘mentally poor’ people, ‘incapable of self‐control or creativity’ who threatened to ‘destroy’ Catalonia 7 .…”

Section: Class Nation and Marginalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3 3 Overviews of Catalan society and politics in English include Balcells 1996,Conversi 1997, Giner 2001, Keating 2001, MacRoberts 2001 and Woolard 1989. Useful correctives to these authors' at times uncritical view of Catalan nationalism are Álvarez Junco 2001, Díez Medrano 1995, Marfany 1995 and 2001 and Miley 2005. …”

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Castells' Catalan routes: nationalism and the sociology of identity¹

MacInnes

2006

British Journal of Sociology

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Castells' analysis of the rise of a global network society and information age is underpinned, paradoxically, by a nationalist vision with organic links in a Gramscian sense to Catalan nationalism. This leads to various weaknesses in his theory, especially an over-emphasis on language and nation at the expense of class. Exploring the specifically Catalan origins of his work, and testing its adequacy there, helps us to understand Castells' broader approach. Discussion of Castells has perhaps overlooked his commitment to nationalism because the sociology of identity sometimes unwittingly adopts what Billig has called a banal nationalist perspective. A stricter distinction between the different meanings of the term identity would help sociology to avoid arguments, such as that of Castells, that risk becoming determinist, teleological or both. The article concludes by asking whether the 'sociological imagination' has been alert enough to its banal nationalist form, facilitated by its intimate relationship with the state, its concern for policy relevance and methods of data gathering.

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Section: Class Nation and Marginalizationmentioning

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Castells' Catalan routes: nationalism and the sociology of identity¹

MacInnes

2006

British Journal of Sociology

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“…The first one would be that the decrease in mobility is a consequence 53 The increasing power of Catalan Nationalism is explained (1) by the larger levels of income and education of the Catalan speaking community and (2) because Spanish electoral law has allowed Catalan nationalism to operate as a third party in Spanish politics, allowing it to obtain high leverage from its successive alliances with either left or right leaning governments. See Miley (2004) for a study of the politics of nationalism and language in Catalonia.…”

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Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames

2007

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We propose an alternative method for measuring intergenerational mobility. Traditional methods based on panel data provide measurements that are scarce, difficult to compare across countries and almost impossible to get across time. In particular this means that we do not know how intergenerational mobility is correlated with growth, income or the degree of inequality. Our proposal is to measure the informative content of surnames in one census. The more information does the surname have on the income of an individual, the more important is background in determining outcomes; and thus, the less mobility there is. The reason for this is that surnames inform on family relationships because the distribution of surnames is necessarily much skewed. A large percentage of the population is bound to have a very unfrequent surname. For them the partition generated by surnames is very informative on family linkages. First, we develop a model whose endogenous variable is the joint distribution of surnames and income. Then we explore the relationship between mobility and the informative content of surnames. We allow for assortative mating to be a determinant of both. Then, we use our methodology to show that in a large Spanish region the informative content of surnames is large and consistent with the model. We also show that it has increased over time, indicating a substantial drop in the degree of mobility. Finally, using the peculiarities of the Spanish surname convention we show that the degree of assortative mating has also increased over time, in such a manner that might explain the decrease in mobility observed. Our method allows us to provide measures of mobility comparable across time. It should also allow us to study other issues related to inheritance.

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“…Consequently, a city‐regionalized “stateless citizenship” has been fuelled by “civic nationalism” rooted in the metropolitan “right to decide” (as an updated version of the principle of the “right to the city”) and bolstered by the metropolitan hub of Barcelona through an increasing push by grassroots movements such as the ANC and OC. However, before the ongoing re‐emergence period of Catalan secessionism, authors such as Miley () advocated against the thesis of Catalonia as a “civic nation.” As Miley stated, as a counterargument to the previous trend—and in opposition to exercising the “right to decide” through referendum and consultation so as to defend fixed state‐territorial integrity stemming from the Westphalian order of the club of nation‐states and from the principle of the “empire of law”—state‐centric “ethnic nationalistic” expressions with different rationales have recently (re‐)emerged and are embodied by the liberal, conservative, and far‐right Spanish political parties: the Citizens' Party ( Ciudadanos, the Cs), the Popular Party ( Partido Popular, PP), and Vox (Billig, ).…”

Section: Rationale: the “Right To Decide” Debate As The Updated Versimentioning

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Catalonia rescaling Spain: Is it feasible to accommodate its “stateless citizenship”?

Calzada

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The Spanish nation‐state is gradually being rescaled by Catalonia's “secession crisis.” Recently and dramatically, in the aftermath of the “illegal” and “constitutive referendum” that took place on 1 October 2017, 2,286,217 Catalan citizens attempted to exercise the “right to decide” to ultimately become “stateless citizens.” This paper examines this rescaling process that has been forming in Barcelona since 10 July 2010 when 1 million Catalan citizens marched to claim their “right to decide” on secession. This paper concludes that, at present, it is not feasible for the Spanish nation‐state to accommodate Catalonia's “stateless citizenship.”

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Against the Thesis of the “Civic Nation”: The Case of Catalonia in Contemporary Spain

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Castells' Catalan routes: nationalism and the sociology of identity¹

Castells' Catalan routes: nationalism and the sociology of identity¹

Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames

Catalonia rescaling Spain: Is it feasible to accommodate its “stateless citizenship”?

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Against the Thesis of the “Civic Nation”: The Case of Catalonia in Contemporary Spain

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Castells' Catalan routes: nationalism and the sociology of identity¹

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