Making the meaning of secession: the Scottish and Catalan cases prior to the independence referendums


Çiftçi A.

Emergent Sovereignties, Vth International Conference on Nationalism, Bilbao, İspanya, 27 - 28 Kasım 2025, (Yayınlanmadı)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Yayınlanmadı
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Bilbao
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İspanya
  • Galatasaray Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.