Post by shakhar24 on Feb 28, 2024 0:52:02 GMT -6
One of the topics that has been discussed the most in Spain at a historiographic level is that of nationalism. I have written numerous articles on the subject. The reasons are obvious. Spain has a serious problem of territorial structure . One nation or several? The key question is: why does Spain have this problem of territorial structuring and not France or Germany? No matter how much you want to deny it, reality is what it is. In Spain there was a weak nationalization of citizens throughout the th century, a result not only of the precariousness of the liberal State itself, but also of the absence of a Spanish nationalist project with the capacity to generate a broad consensus. The "disaster" of caused a serious identity crisis, which is why Spain entered the th century from being considered a "ruined empire to a questioned nation", a completely peculiar situation in Europe. Spain has been the only European country in which nationalist movements emerged at the end of the th century, precisely in the most dynamic and developed areas (Catalonia and the Basque Country).
And the fact that these movements developed significantly throughout the th and st centuries until they became the majority political forces in these territories is also an unparalleled phenomenon in today's Europe. Insisting on the issue of the C Level Executive List problem of territorial structuring, as a consequence of a very weak nationalization process in Spain, two articles seem very pertinent to me : Spain and the History (in capital letters) by Cesar Molinas, mathematician and economist; and Shared emotion by Álvarez Junco , professor of History at the Complutense University. Molinas turns to Bobbit , which examines the role of war in the formation of modern nation-states. France, for example, has become French by killing Germans. And Germany, German killing French.
Spain has been different. Our wars over the last two centuries have been civil wars, which are divisive rather than cohesive. Spain at many moments in our history has tried to become Spanish by killing Spaniards. The result is a half-baked nation-state, much less cohesive than the French or German. For Álvarez Junco , a nation is not a natural reality, but a historical-cultural creation. Its existence is based not on objective factors, such as race, language, but on something subjective: a feeling shared by a group of people to proclaim a common identity, to desire to become a state and to control the territory they inhabit. More clearly: nations are when a group of people believe themselves to be a “nation”, wish to be one and proclaim to be one. And as beliefs, feelings and emotions evolve, nations are not eternal; They are made and undone. And in this coming and going there are key dates. In France, thanks to the people mobilized in arms, the battle of Valmy in , which marked the triumph of the revolution over the Ancien Regime, served to generate the feeling of belonging to the community of France.
And the fact that these movements developed significantly throughout the th and st centuries until they became the majority political forces in these territories is also an unparalleled phenomenon in today's Europe. Insisting on the issue of the C Level Executive List problem of territorial structuring, as a consequence of a very weak nationalization process in Spain, two articles seem very pertinent to me : Spain and the History (in capital letters) by Cesar Molinas, mathematician and economist; and Shared emotion by Álvarez Junco , professor of History at the Complutense University. Molinas turns to Bobbit , which examines the role of war in the formation of modern nation-states. France, for example, has become French by killing Germans. And Germany, German killing French.
Spain has been different. Our wars over the last two centuries have been civil wars, which are divisive rather than cohesive. Spain at many moments in our history has tried to become Spanish by killing Spaniards. The result is a half-baked nation-state, much less cohesive than the French or German. For Álvarez Junco , a nation is not a natural reality, but a historical-cultural creation. Its existence is based not on objective factors, such as race, language, but on something subjective: a feeling shared by a group of people to proclaim a common identity, to desire to become a state and to control the territory they inhabit. More clearly: nations are when a group of people believe themselves to be a “nation”, wish to be one and proclaim to be one. And as beliefs, feelings and emotions evolve, nations are not eternal; They are made and undone. And in this coming and going there are key dates. In France, thanks to the people mobilized in arms, the battle of Valmy in , which marked the triumph of the revolution over the Ancien Regime, served to generate the feeling of belonging to the community of France.