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Citizen Mobilization and the “Right to Decide” Movement in Catalonia (2010-2014)

Citizen Mobilization and the “Right to Decide” Movement in Catalonia (2010-2014)
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Author(s): Joan Nogué (University of Girona, Spain)and Jordi de San Eugenio Vela (University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Spain)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 30
Source title: Political Identity and Democratic Citizenship in Turbulent Times
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Niels Noergaard Kristensen (University of Aalborg, Denmark)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3677-3.ch007

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Abstract

For the purposes of this chapter, it is interesting to analyse the arguments that justify the secessionist cause in Catalonia and, in particular, whether this bottom-up social demand falls within the scope of the democratically admissible. Similarly, it is important to determine how the Catalan people's ‘taking to the streets' represents a concrete political response with which in some form the will of the Catalan people has conditioned and even precipitated the political agenda of the current government. What has happened in Catalonia highlights the new—and prevailing—role played by civil society in public affairs. Within this framework, new questions arise regarding the counterpower exercised by citizens through massive, peaceful, and recurrent social mobilizations, which can, as a whole, be considered a spontaneous manifestation of participatory democracy.

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