Photo by Joel Tasche on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “La gravedad de los sucesos de otoño”. Roger Senserrich. Politikon. 26th June 2018 Maybe it’s due to the last weekend’s poll at La Vanguardia; maybe because I’m following too many pro-independence militants on Twitter, but I have the feeling that the Catalonian society isn’t becoming aware of the extraordinary seriousness of […]
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La gravità dei fatti dello scorso autunno
Photo by Joel Tasche on Unsplash Originale: “La gravedad de los sucesos de otoño”. Roger Senserrich. Politikon. 26 giugno 2018 Sarà forse per il sondaggio dello scorso fine settimana su La Vanguardia, sarà perché seguo troppi indipendentisti su Twitter, ma ho l’impressione che la società catalana non sia del tutto consapevole della straordinaria gravità dei fatti […]
Fiscal nationalism and the social democrat discourse
Originally published in Spanish. Luis Abenza. Politikon. As the conflict with Catalonia advances and solutions come into view, if there are any to come, it will be important that the debate stops revolving around abstract realities, such as the right to decide, and begins to be focused on concrete solutions like what kind of self-government […]
The Catalan Question and the Contradictions of Prosperity
Originally published in Spanish. Luis Abenza. Politikon. Where does the support to nationalism come from? Is this the result of a clash of legitimacies, of conflicting ideas about democracy, of a constitutional crisis? Or is this the expression of antagonisms structured by deeper factors? The 2006 Estatut, the “Scam Theory” and the “Clash of Legitimacies” […]
Seditionaries and the future we all know
Originally published in Spanish. Roger Senserrich. Politikon. This piece will probably change nothing. The preventive imprisonment of Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart is one of those events (one more) for which I could tell the most beautiful story ever heard and still not get anyone to change his previous opinion. No matter how much I […]
This is about Winning
Originally published in Spanish. Pablo Simón. Politikon. 1.- At this point, the sequence we could anticipate since before the October 1st is working as a clock. Last Tuesday, a chameleon UDI took place, since every one saw in it what wanted to see. Some saw a call to dialogue, others, a unilateral declaration. To me, […]
Seven viewpoints on 1-O
Published originally in Spanish. Politikon. Considering the exceptional moment we are in, seven editors of Politikon pour their different viewpoints regarding the vote on October 1st, what has happened up to now and what is yet to come. Elena Costas Pérez. Four days before the referendum in Catalonia any diagnostic is bound to be tragic. […]
Foreign in my own country
Published originally in Spanish. Roger Senserrich. Politikon. I think I have said this before, but I always felt as belonging, sentimentally at least, to four countries: Venezuela, England, United States and Catalonia. I was born in Venezuela; I lived there until I was 6. I never went again. First, because I was too young, later […]