ATS1701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Basque Nationalism, Basque Language, Romantic Nationalism
25 May 2018
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Lecture - week 9 - ETA - ethno-nationalist terrorist organizations
- ethno-nationalism
• nationalism - patriotic feelings, principles or efforts
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o an extreme form of patriotism or a feeling of a superiority over
other countries
o advocacy of political independence for a political country
• how is this nation defined
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o geography
o religion
o modern european languages and language (sub)families
- divisive nationalism
• basque and irish
• after being used as a unifying ideology - italy and germany - nationalism
from the late 19th and 20th century became about independence of
oppressed people
• opposition against well established states - terrorism
• anchored in distinctive language
• further reinforced by other appeals - culture, race
- irish nationalism
• national identity partly based on religion - catholic vs protestant
• - basque
- basque nationalism
• independence of basque speaking terror ties in spain and france
• national identity based race - romantic nationalism, later culture
- genotype
- from basque nationalism to ETA
• formation of spain/france
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o slow assimilation of most basque speakers in their traditional
lands
o creation of centralised spanish and french states by 16th century
• the basque old laws
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o spain harvoured a composite of laws and traditions that
progressively became castilianised
o basque country and navarre saw the lest change but their laws
were curtailed over the 19th century
• traditionalist basque nationalism
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o sabino araña found the basque nationalist arty -BNP in 1895
o conservative reaction against
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▪ new morals and laws - e.g. religious freedom
▪ industrialisation, which was attracting migrants from
power parts of Spain
• first autonomy for basque country
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