Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Yükseköğretim Kurumları Destekli Proje, 2024 - 2024
What drives
mainstream regionalist political parties to adopt secessionist positions? Over
the course of the last decade, we have witnessed the rise of secessionist
movements in Catalonia and Scotland. Even though secessionism has widely been
on the rise during this period, these two regions have one phenomenon in
common: their governing regionalist parties organized referenda for
independence, yet their separation attempts failed. Taking this commonality as
a point of departure, I will analyze the political strategies of incumbent
regionalist parties on the way to and during secessionist mobilizations. In
doing so, I will elaborate upon the contestatory relationship between central
and regional governments, as well as inner struggles amongst and within regionalist
parties in their leading of the secessionist movements. Using participant
observation, in-depth interviews, discursive analysis, and archival research, I
will seek to understand the political competition within multi-dimensional
political spaces, class dynamics as well as their articulation with
secessionism, and finally, I will investigate social mobilizations and
reclamations as well as their mediated reflections onto the political scene
through strategies and discourses of political parties.