Politics, culture, and sociability in the Basque nationalist party / Roland Vazquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

1964- Vazquez., author.

Contributor:

Roland (Legendary character)

Series:

Basque series.

The Basque Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euzko-Alderdi Jeltzalia.

Nationalism--Spain--País Vasco.

Nationalism.

Political parties--Spain--País Vasco.

Political parties.

País Vasco (Spain)--Politics and government.

País Vasco (Spain).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables.

Place of Publication:

Reno, Nevada ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : University of Nevada Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until now, social scientists studying Spanish politics have focused on party systems, regime transition, and election analysis, and anthropologists studying Spain have largely neglected its political parties. This book is a pathbreaking work of political anthropology and an ethnographic study of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV). Author Roland Vazquez studies Basque nationalism as not merely a political phenomenon but as a cultural and social one as well. He examines the forces that have shaped the Basque political panorama, the nature of Basque political campaigns, Basque cultural and social movements both inside and outside the explicitly partisan milieu, and the role of other parties in the Basque Country. The study is enhanced by extensive interviews and broad fieldwork among Basque contacts of diverse backgrounds and loyalties. The result is a vivid portrait of political life in the contemporary Basque Country, of the tensions between various nationalist parties and philosophies, and of the way politics are influenced by Basque notions of community, social connections, and national identity. The book also serves as a model for studies of other political and nationalist movements and the cultural and social ties and values that drive them.

Contents:

Studying politics in the Basque country

Political transition and consolidation

The local PNV idiom and implantation

The political insociability of fission and beyond

The normalization of the savage mind

The Socialist Party and the postnationalist challenge

Transformation, "democratic nationalism". and the electoral crescendo

The politics of "nonpartisanship"

Commemoration and context of a new party ritual

A myth with eternal returns?

On parties, systems, and events past and present.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780874178234

0874178231

OCLC:

704275130