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COMPARATIVE TERRITORIAL POLITICS Nationalism, Liberalism and Language in Catalonia and Flanders Daniel Cetrà Comparative Territorial Politics Series Editors Michael Keating University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, UK Arjan H. Schakel Maastricht University Maastricht, The Netherlands Michaël Tatham University of Bergen Bergen, Norway Territorial politics is one of the most dynamic areas in contemporary political science. Rescaling, new and re-emergent nationalisms, regional devolution, government, federal reform and urban dynamics have reshaped the architecture of government at sub-state and transnational levels, with profound implications for public policy, political competition, democracy and the nature of political community. Important policy fields such as health, education, agriculture, environment and economic devel- opment are managed at new spatial levels. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: © EricFalco/Getty Images This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgements Over the years, I have accumulated sizable debts to colleagues and friends. I am especially grateful to Jonathan Hearn, Wilfried Swenden, David McCrone and Jimmy Kennedy—each of whom offered support, encouragement and penetrating critical feedback on several occasions. I also owe debts of gratitude to Michael Keating, Helder De Schutter, Robert Liñeira, Rudi Janssens, Sergi Morales-Gálvez, Ivan Serrano, Marc Sanjaume and Kasper Swerts—they generously sent me written feedback on chapter drafts and discussed the book’s ideas with me. I am enormously grateful to the Université de Liège for funding my fieldwork in Belgium and to the whole team at the Spiral Research Centre for their support and kindness. I am especially grateful to Hugues Renard for his assistance and hospitality and, above all, for taking me to Standard de Liège matches. I would like to thank many colleagues who generously discussed aspects of this book and offered suggestions, assistance and encour- agement. Philippe Van Parijs, Jérémy Dodeigne, Linda Cardinal, Bettina Petersohn, Eve Hepburn, Min Reuchamps, Bernard Yack, Esma Baycan, Juan Jiménez Salcedo, Klaus-Jürgen Nagel, Liliana Riga, Frédéric Claisse, Marc Jacmain, Pierre Verjans, Raf Geenens, Michael Jewkes, Jean-François Gregoire, Els Witte, Rémi Léger, Till Burckhardt, Coree Brown Swan, Nicola McEwen, Clare de Mowbray, Albert Branchadell, Ignasi Vila, Xavier Vila i Moreno, Andrew Shorten, Alix Dassargues. I also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for Palgrave Macmillan for offering very insightful and constructive feedback, and v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS all my interviewees for their great disposition. I am also grateful to the Territorial Politics Research Group at the University of Edinburgh and audiences at various academic conferences. My friends inside and outside of academia, only some of whom I am able to name here, kept me happy and sane throughout this intellec- tual journey. For offering emotional support and much-needed distrac- tions, I am deeply grateful to David Martí, Ceren Şengül, Eirik ‘Viking’ Fuglestad, Shruti Chaudhry, everyone at the Centre on Constitutional Change, Erin Hughes, Gëzim Krasniqi, Marie-Eve Hamel, Nonna Gorilovskaya, Neşe Karahasan, Lisa Kalayji, Elvira Prado, Katherine Baxter, Alexandra Remond, the School of Social and Political Science football team, Hugo Coves, Martí Puigbó, Marc Bassols, Gerard Galbete and all the members of the Barcelona-based ‘Xunga Gang’. This book is dedicated to my family and to Mariola. c ontents 1 Introduction 1 2 Revisiting Liberal Nationalism 11 3 The Politics of Language and Nationalism 31 4 Nationalism in Catalonia and Flanders 55 5 The Catalan Linguistic Dispute 87 6 The Flemish Linguistic Dispute 125 7 Debating within Liberal Nationalism 169 8 Conclusion: Speaking for the Nation 193 Index 205 vii l f ist of igures Fig. 2.1 Liberal nationalism in the liberal-communitarian debate 19 Fig. 3.1 Dutch speaking territories 35 Fig. 3.2 Catalan speaking territories 35 Fig. 3.3 Positions in the linguistic justice debate 41 Fig. 6.1 The Flemish Periphery 126 Fig. 6.2 The electoral district of BHV 134 ix l t ist of Ables Table 2.1 Conceptual framework 12 Table 5.1 The discursive defence of the system 100 Table 5.2 The discursive opposition to the system 110 xi
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