Emergent Sovereignties, Vth International Conference on Nationalism, Bilbao, İspanya, 27 - 28 Kasım 2025, (Yayınlanmadı)
What do stateless nationalist and regionalist parties
(SNRPs) understand by secession and autonomy, or more broadly, self-governance?
Are these concepts fixed and homogeneous or are they subject to either abrupt
or gradual changes? How do these concepts or strategies take shape during
critical junctures? By raising these questions, this study explores the
meaning-making processes of self-government goals in Catalonia and Scotland.
Focusing on the changing territorial strategies of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia
(Convèrgencia Democràtica de Catalunya, CDC) and the Scottish National Party
(SNP), two mainstream and governing nationalist parties in their respective
entities, it invites to interrogate the very meaning of secessionism, in terms
of a territorial strategy, based on the independence attempts of these parties
via referendums.