Internal boundaries, decentralized manifestations, and spatial polarization of political movements in Europe

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Internal boundaries, decentralized manifestations, and spatial polarization of political movements in Europe

Original language description

Both the institutionalist and culturalist theories of nationalism and nation-building postulated the disappearance of internal political and cultural boundaries within the nation-states’ territories and awaited the formation of uniform nations. Despite this conceptual uniformity, a substantial body of geographical and anthropological research has indicated that the national ethno-cultural cores and peripheries, and therefore a spatial variation in the manifested performances and the proposed support for nationalist intentions, in fact occur frequently. This paper focuses on the issue of internal variation in the organization and manifestations of and allegiances to political movements across Europe. For this purpose, I examined spatial polarization of political performances over the last decade at multiple scales in three significantly dissimilar cases of nationalisms in the Basque Country, Catalonia, and the Czech Republic. Furthermore, taking the Gurr’s model of nationalist mobilization as a point of departure, I distinguished changes in the permeability of politico-cultural boundaries and the spatial polarization of nationalist allegiances between the periods of a banal, everyday nationalist performance and a mobilized political intentions. The present research combined the geographically nested, multi-scalar analysis of polarization using both the ecological and individual-level data with the analysis using in situ observations which were conducted in the three respective regions. The results acknowledged the significance of spatially embedded and entrenched ethno-cultural and socioeconomic cores. Spatial polarization of nationalist manifestations and allegiances, although partially explained by the cleavage structure, was primarily a function of mobilization, movement’s institutional capacity, and local contextual effects.

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů