The Ethnicity Reader Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration (Montserrat Guibernau John Rex)
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Catalonia, a case study |
obtain a minimum recognition of |
Catalan culture, to do business and learn |
from other countries. |
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History
For Pujol, continuity over time is a work of several generations’(Pujol
key concept of nationalism: |
a people is the |
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1980:39), a people ‘cannot exist if it breaks |
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with
tradition’
(
Pujol
1980:
28
).
The
emphasis
on
the
role
of
identity
takes
on
a
new
dimension
with
his
exploration
of
its
sources
and
conclusion
that
it
owes
a great deal to
everybody has
historical developments. |
You must |
admit’, he writes, ‘that |
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the right to see in history not only a point of reference but also |
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an explanation of
(Pujol 1990: 77).
the
present
and
an
understanding
of
one’s
own
personality’
The
CiU’s
leader
examines
the
historical
origins
of
Catalonia
and
uses
them
to
legitimize
the
distinction
between
Catalans
and
Spaniards
.
As
a
member
of
the
Carolingian
empire,
Catalonia,
he
argues,
possesses
a
distinct
origin
from
that
of
the
rest
of
a
Spain
which
was
occupied
by
the
Moors
for
seven
centuries.
Pujol
accentuates
the
difference
between
Catalonia
and
the
other
areas
of
the
Spanish state by alluding to eighteenth century towards
the positive attitude of the Catalans in the
European ideas, industrialization, agrarian
late re-
forms
and
mercantilism
,
in
contrast
to
their
Spanish
counterparts
(
Pujol
1990:
37). He also
Carlos III in
points to the innovation and modernization the second half of the eighteenth century. In
brought about by the set of lectures
Pujol
delivered
during
the
commemoration
of
the
bicentennial
of
Carlos
III,
he argued that Spain did not react to the modernizing message of the |
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king’, and |
that after |
his death, progress continued |
only in |
Catalonia. Pujol |
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emphasizes
the
Catalans’
positive
attitude
towards
hard
work
and
quotes
the
Catalan intellectual Josep Aparici, who in 1708 wrote: |
Business is the soul of |
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the state and the republic’, thus praising economic and commercial activities. |
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The major factors which Catalonia are identified as
prompted a the existence
flourishing industrial of a civd society and a
revolution in relatively high
degree of social cohesion, especially compared |
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sentiment |
of |
being a country, thus |
ideals. |
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with the rest of theSpanishstate implying collective hopes and
The
awakening
of
the
nation
Nationalist discourse always involves the assumption that the nation has to |
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.The religious patriotic |
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‘wake up’ and be made ‘aware’ of its own possibilities |
messianism. He |
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mysticism of Pujol’s early work projects a certain degree of |
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was imprisoned in 1961-2 for his political activities against |
the dictatorship, |
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and his writings of that time |
affirm the need for |
restoration, cohesion and |
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national sentiment: ‘We need |
true virtues, strong |
individuals [. . .] who will |
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awake hundreds of thousands of sleeping individuals and will make |
hundreds |
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