"Independence" and "statehood" narratives in the historical memory of modern Catalonia
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2024-3-134-144
Abstract
Aim. To analyse the perception of the concepts of “statehood” and “independence” in modern Catalan memorial culture and historical memory.
Methodology. The problem is analysed through the prism of intellectual history and the history of ideas, as well as the achievements of the memorial turn.
Results. The role and place of regional intellectual communities and political elites as the main participants in historical politics, defined as forms of development of nationalism and the Catalan nationalist imagination, are analysed. The article examines the current stage in the development of the historical policy of regional Catalan society through the prism of a confrontational model of the development of memorial culture in the context of the deliberate actualization of the concepts of “statehood” and “independence”. Research implication. Analysis of the images of “independence” and “statehood” as narrative constructs of historical politics shows that the range of memorial practices of regional intellectuals in Catalonia is limited primarily by their participation in strengthening civic identity and participation in the legitimation of the political program of nationalism.
About the Author
M. W. Kyrchanoff
Voronezh State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maksym W. Kyrchanoff – Dr. Sci. (History), Assoc. Prof., Department of Regional Studies and Economics of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Department of History of Foreign Countries and Oriental Studies, Faculty of History
Universitetskaya pl. 1, Voronezh 394006
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