Author(s)

Erika Jaráiz, Ángel Cazorla, José Manuel Rivera

University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.

In this paper we identify four fundamental factors in the construction of the nation-preconditions, political opportunity structure, mobilization and speech-, integrated by a series of elements that serve as indicators for the approach to our explanatory model. With our analysis we demonstrate that in Catalonia nationalism is explained by contextual elements, elements of mobilisation, fundamentally the leadership, and by the “process” itself. These findings allow us to talk about a Catalan nationalism constructed on the bases of reasons that have to do with unjust treatment by Spanish governments, trust and expectations.

Nationalism, Catalonia, Process, Identity

Jaráiz, E. , Cazorla, Á. and Rivera, J. (2019) The New Components of Catalan Nationalism. Open Journal of Political Science, 9, 163-188. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2019.91009.