Hibernation of secession tensions in Catalonia : attenuation trends on antagonistic alignments
Oller, Josep Maria (Universitat de Barcelona)
Satorra, Albert (Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa)
Tobeña, Adolf 1950- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Psiquiatria i de Medicina Legal)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Neurociències

Date:	2023
Description:	16 pàg.
Abstract:	The secession campaign in Catalonia created a political fracture into two sizeable and opposing citizenry segments, those who favored secession from Spain and those who were against it. In a series of longitudinal studies covering the entire period of regular surveys made by the official polling agency of the Regional Government (2006-2019), we showed that this fissure operated mainly through an ethnolinguistic cleavage based on family language and ascendancy origins. Media outlets linked to successive pro-secession Regional Governments accentuated the division. Here we extend these analyses till 2022, to capture potential variations in such a division across the five years following the failed secession attempt of October 2017. Present findings confirm the persistence of the fissure along similar lines: family language interacts with the influence of regional partisan media to keep the fracture alive, though with trends denoting an attenuation of antagonistic identity alignments. We detected, as well, a turning point for the attenuation of both political confrontation and social division, within a conflict that has not been solved, albeit it appears mitigated. We discuss how elapsed time after secession failure and the effects of several political and non-political events might have helped to dampen down divisive tensions and repair a serious fracture produced by the secession push.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Secession ; National identity ; Ethnolinguistic division ; Media influence ; Spain politics
Published in:	Genealogy, Vol. 7 Núm. 2 (2023) , p. 36-16, ISSN 2313-5778

DOI: 10.3390/genealogy7020036

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