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SOUTH EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 487-508Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1040147
Keywords
Spanish Nationalism; National Identities; National Political Community; Left-Wing Parties; Political Decentralisation; Welfare Nationalism
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
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This study analyses the extent, sense, and strategies employed by sympathisers with Spanish state-wide left-wing parties to reconstruct' their affective ties with the Spanish nation after the monopolisation of patriotism' by Franco's regime. Such an undertaking is further complicated within the context of economic crisis and intensified peripheral nationalism found in Catalonia and the Basque Country. This article applies qualitative analysis to the discourse of left-wing participants from 11 focus groups held in March 2012 amidst the economic (and political) crisis. As expected, this context of crisis favoured the emergence of explicit discourse on the Spanish nation, providing an opportunity to gain a better understanding of its nature. Findings show that welfare nationalism and social patriotism define the kind of attachment developed by the interviewees towards Spain better than the concept of constitutional patriotism, or any kind of ethnic-cultural feeling of belonging.
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