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Women and ETA
Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews, archival material and published sources, this book shows how women’s participation in radical Basque nationalism has changed from the founding of ETA in 1959 to the present. It analyses several aspects of women’s nationalist activism: collaboration and direct activism in ETA, cultural movements, motherhood, prison and feminism. By focusing on gender politics Women and ETA offers new perspectives on the history of ETA, including recruitment, the militarization of radical Basque nationalism, and the role of the media in shaping popular understandings of ‘terrorism’. These arguments are directly relevant to the study of women in other insurgence and terrorist movements. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, Hispanic studies, gender studies, anthropology and politics, as well as to journalists and readers interested in women’s participation in contemporary conflicts and terrorist movements.
States of Memory
States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory—its place in social relations and the forms it takes—varies over time. Integrating theories of memory and nationalism with case studies, these essays stake a vital middle ground between particular and universal approaches to social memory studies. The contributors—including historians and social scientists—describe societies’ struggles to produce and then use ideas of what a “normal” past should look like. They examine claims about the genuinen...
Globalization and Nationalism
Argues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that nationalism and globalization are forces of clashing opposition, Sabanadze establishes that these tend to become allied forces. Acknowledges that nationalism does react against the rising globalization and represents a form of resistance against globalizing influences, but the Basque and Georgian cases prove that globalization and nationalism can be complementary rather than contradictory tendencies. Nationalists have often served as promoters of globalization, seeking out globalizing influences and engaging with global actors out of th...
Politics and Policy in Democratic Spain
Spain is different" was a favourite tourist board slogan of the Franco dictatorship. Is Spain still different? This volume provides an original series of analyses of how politics in democratic Spain has developed since the remarkable success of the transition to democracy.
Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena
Redresses the balance on the human and cultural aspects of the idea of being Basque in the modern world. Everyday nationalism, the human and cultural aspects of identity, is a neglected subject in the literature on nationalism in Europe. Jeremy MacClancy redresses the balance in this unusual and sharp book on the human and cultural aspects of the idea of being Basque in the modern world. The style is fresh and colloquial, dealing with several of the kinds of issues that usually appear in popular magazines - cuisine, football, art and graffiti - but the treatment is serious and illustrative of underlying currents in social life. MacClancy argues that the ethnographic understanding of nationalisms, rather than the orthodox studies of ideology, political parties, social classesand centre-periphery clashes - offers a more nuanced comprehension of the lived reality of people in areas where nationalism is a significant force. This is very much nationalism from the bottom up. JEREMY MACCLANCY is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University Series editors: Wendy James & Nick Allen
La mirada difusa
El presente ensayo comprensivo de la realidad social del nacionalismo vasco en el siglo XXI no contiene recetas, ni pretende ser un compendio de soluciones. Antes bien, interroga a la realidad vasca sobre la complejidad que ésta atesora. El autor, de la mano de la historia, realiza un recorrido para averiguar el sentido del nacionalismo en los tiempos presentes, al tiempo que penetra en la incidencia de la globalización en la configuración del poder político y en la transformación de los discursos alrededor de la nación, de la soberanía y de la territorialidad, centrando los retos en la creación de un nuevo concepto de nación, en la asunción del pluralismo, en el final de la violencia y en la relación con el Estado. La mirada difusa es un libro tan alejado de la comodidad como valioso para quienes deseen explorar el enigma vasco.
El malestar de la democracia
El autor defiende la idea de que el origen del malestar de la política democrática está asociado a tres hechos: a la complejidad y a la incertidumbre que mueven el mundo contemporáneo; a la crisis de los supuestos sobre los que se asentaron las definiciones modernas de la política –especialmente la estabilidad del Estado-nación y la idea y la práctica del bienestar–; y a los nuevos problemas, no previstos o no resueltos, que impregnan la vida cotidiana de nuestras sociedades, como la crisis del mito de Occidente, la emergencia de nuevos modelos de modernización económica, la regionalización política, las nuevas formas de exclusión social, los efectos del multiculturalismo, el agotamiento de los tradicionales mecanismos de control político… Y todo ello en una época en que las ideas han de surtir efecto en el difícil territorio limitado por el ejercicio de la libertad, la necesidad de seguridad y las identidades, creadas, éstas, con ánimo de fundar, en ocasiones con materiales poco consistentes, una comunidad segura capaz de reestablecer el equilibrio psicológico y social allá donde éste aparece como imposible.
