The Reawakening of Spanish Nationalist Discourse in the 21st Century

The Reawakening of Spanish Nationalist Discourse in the 21st Century

Thursday, April 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
(Pacific)
CISAC Conference Room
Speaker: 
  • Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas

RSVP date extended to April 11th.

This seminar will explore contemporary discourses on Spanish nationalism. Since the end of Francoism, Spanish nationalism has existed in a de-articulated and diffuse way. However, since the mid-1990s there has been a recovery of Spanish nationalist discourse, often labelled as "Constitutional patriotism", whose main point is the insistence on History as the founding basis for the legitimation of the present Spanish policy, as well as the vindication of the 1978 Constitution as the end-point of decentralization.