V quick thoughts on #Catalonia: could be v easy for bubble think in Barcelona that Sunday’s violence gives unilateral independence declaration legitimacy
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UDI changes Barcelona from aggressed in international eyes to the aggressor. Could Madrid stand by while millions of Spanish citz were brought into a new state against their will?
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Other striking thing is increasingly Madrid and Barcelona live in separate media (and propaganda) bubbles. Makes danger of confrontation far greater
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New idea time: Catalonia (like scotland) is essentially post post colonial nationalism. Future state structure is far less agreed
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1) Or time to revisit Michael Hechter's 'Internal Colonialism'? 'Internal colonies' may have been a necessary precursor to wider Empire.
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2) I still think the Medieval concept of 'Possession' fits Scotland's case rather better than 'Colony'.
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It was the SNP that defined the referendum electorate as residents not as Scots. More akin to territorial nationalism than euref was.
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