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Barcelona in early July 2010: pre-field notes
I’ve just got back to England from a second brief trip to Barcelona to prepare the family move there prior to the start of fieldwork from September. A few sketchy notes for future reference and...
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Online discussion on Catalan nationalism
Highlights from an ongoing forum thread triggered by a piece on Quebec by Daniel Estulin. The quotes below capture, among other things, some of the issues preoccupying people who follow with interest...
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An eventful fortnight for Catalonia
Saturday, 10 July 2010: huge demonstration in Barcelona against a ruling of Spain’s Constitutional Court limiting Catalonia’s autonomy. Sunday, 11 July 2010: Catalan flags replaced by Spanish flags on...
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Preparing for Barcelona fieldwork
East Midlands, England. Wintry chill in the air, 14 degrees celsius. Preparing for fieldwork in Barcelona whilst finishing a conference paper. Moving a nuclear family from one country to another is not...
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Review of McRoberts (2001) Catalonia: Nation Building Without a State
Kenneth McRoberts. Catalonia. Nation Building Without A State. Oxford University Press. Ontario. 2001. 258 pp. Reviewed by John MacInnes, Universitat de Pompeu Fabra and University of Edinburgh Kenneth...
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Review of Hargreaves (2000) Freedom for Catalonia?
HARGREAVES, John, Freedom for Catalonia? Catalan Nationalism, Spanish Identity, and the Barcelona Olympic Games, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reviewed by Dr Montserrat Roser i Puig,...
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Free culture in Barcelona: materials on EXGAE and SGAE
In preparation for fieldwork into activism and social media in Barcelona, I am gathering background materials on a number of groups, networks and campaigns. These are some of the materials I’ve...
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Social media and activism in Barcelona: an early field report
Mediacciones Seminar Social media and activism in Barcelona: an early field report Update 18 November: slides will be in English, oral presentation in Spanish Friday 26 November, 2010, 4-6 pm Internet...
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Cartoons: Spain protests in 2004 and 2011
Item 1. 23 February 2004, by la makabra resiste (courtesy of Ramon Ribera Fumaz) La Makabra resiste en zona de guerra especulativa. Maragall y Klos ya preparan sus tanques y sus bombas inteligentes...
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Democracy in the age of viral reality (2)
Continued from Democracy in the age of viral reality (1) A peaceful protest Barcelona, 15 May 2011. I arrive at Plaça de Catalunya at around five thirty, half an hour before the scheduled start of the...
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Barcelona’s local elections in the global spotlight
Less than a week ago, on 24 May 2015, local and regional elections were held across Spain. In Barcelona, Madrid and other major cities, new anti-establishment candidates either won or came very close...
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