Memòria i emergència en l'independentisme català. El cas de la Plantaforma pel Dret de Decidir

Abstract

This thesis is based on the following premise: model construction and management autonomy in Catalonia is going through a phase of crisis and / or exhaustion as for fitting the model-driven autonomic Spain with specified LOAPA’s law in 1982. A crisis in recent months has led to a extensive analysis of this difficulty profusion of lace between Catalonia and Spain especially in media, but also in the acadèmic fields. In fact, the process of developing a new status update to the relationship between Catalonia and the legal and political structures in Spain, promoted by the coalition government, PSC-PSOE, ERC and ICV-EUiA, emerged from the elections of November 2003 and the support of the main opposition party (CiU) an indicator of the presumed expiry of the autonomous model emerged from the transition. Throughout the past five years have witnessed a statutory process which has had a long process of drafting, approval, negotiation, validation referendum was finally revoked by the Constitutional Court partially discredit in the eyes of public opinion Catalan. A statutory process that has lasted seven years and, while it has achieved the objectives of the statute bases, put new relationship with the state has caused major changes in the so-called Catalanism politician. Among some of these changes are increasing the understanding and recognition of the independence claim, which took a considerable intensity. Under the temporary embracing this thesis -2005-2010 - a separatist party ERC, has been part of the coalition government, there have been three national manifestations most importants sign made in Catalonia since the transition, 560 consultations that have been explicitly asked for independence, there has been a shift in terms of sovereignty Catalan political elites and, ultimately, had never before spoken in public sphere Central to the possibility of independence for Catalonia. All this to point to a key in increase of Catalan independence, reflected in the media, public opinion, and electoral papers. This thesis will not discuss the reasons for this dislocation and / or crisis, but explain the reasons and because of the visibility of the debate on independence, and if this debate has been motivated cojunturals or has been due to the movement that has promoted. From a theoretical framework from the literature of social movements, the paradigm of governance and theories of nationalism has been a case study focused on one of the actors has been more active in stage analyze - 2003/2010- and expressed desire to analyze micro and framing it in the discussion of the structure / agency. This is the Plataforma pel Dret a Decidir (Platform for the Right to Decide), a new social and political actor born in the heat of the adoption of the new statute and the dreaded cuts that would occur to the Congress a few months later, and evolving into a platform that operated on parameters of state and nation-builduing. This platform known for two events organized -18 February 2006 and December 1, 2007 - which gave him a significant political actor category, especially with regard to their own socio-political space, the Catalan independence movement.

Date of Award	18 Mar 2011
Original language	Catalan
Awarding Institution	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Supervisor	Salvador Marti Puig (Director) & Joaquin Brugue Torruella (Tutor)