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15 - Resisting Neoliberalism? Territorial Autonomy Movements in the Iberian World

from Part IV - Symbolic Power: Identities and Social Protest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2023

By
Matthias vom Hau  and
Hana Srebotnjak
Edited by
Miguel A. Centeno  and
Agustin E. Ferraro
Miguel A. Centeno
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
Agustin E. Ferraro
Affiliation:
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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Summary

Spain, and Europe more generally, has long been regarded as an epicenter of regionalism and secessionism, while Latin America is usually portrayed as lacking comparable movements. This chapter takes a different approach. First, applying the concept of territorial autonomy movements, it pursues a cross-regional comparison of Santa Cruz in Bolivia, Guayas in Ecuador, and Catalonia in Spain. The chapter shows that autonomy movements across the Iberian world are strikingly similar with regards to their core claims, diagnostic frames, and tactics. The chapter draws on social movement theory, secondly, to account for the recent intensification of territorial autonomy mobilizations in the three cases under discussion. We argue that in all three cases, (1) transformations of center-region relations triggered territorial grievances; (2) dense associational networks and new alliances with local state representatives enhanced organizational resources, while (3) broader anti-neoliberal protest cycles and their concern with direct democracy and/or multicultural group rights provided territorial challengers with new ways to assign meaning to and justify their demands. Finally, the chapter also engages with the broader theme of the volume and places territorial autonomy movements in the context of the neoliberal state and wider anti-neoliberal protests in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Spain.

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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
The Neoliberal State and Beyond
 , pp. 462 - 492
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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