Catalonia : national identity and cultural policy, 1980-2003 / Kathryn Crameri

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Crameri, Kathryn

Series: Iberian and Latin American studiesPublication details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2008Description: VI, 229 pISBN:

9870708320136

Summary: Catalonia: National ldentity and Cultural Policy, 1980- 2003 discusses the cultural policy of the Catalan Autonomous Government under the leadership of Jordi Pujol and his party, in power from 1980 to 2003. Examining issues of national identity and cultural nationalism in the context of globalization, multiculturalism and the commodification of culture, the book looks at how Pujol’s government attempted to tackle these challenges. This is a detailed analysis of language policy, literature, theatre, cinema, television, traditional culture, the cultural industries and cultural policy regarding immigration. The author asks whether the admiration for Pujol and Catalonia shown by other regional governments in the West is justified or whether their high-profile achievements in language and culture actually conceal critical failures in their cultural policy. This is the only book in English that gives a comprehensive review of Catalan cultural policy during this period. Held to be one of the more successful of Europe's regions in maintaining and promoting its individual identity, this timely study examines how effectively cultural policy was deployed to achieve this reputation. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00769	1	Available		1900147826

Series editors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why study Catalonia's cultural policy? -- Nation-building and culture -- 1. Convergència i Unió : nationalist ideology and cultural policy: The context in 1980 ; Historical precedent ; Developing a cultural policy ; Catalan intellectuals and cultural policy -- 2. Language policy: The 1970s and 1980s ; The 1990s to 2003 ; Saving catalan ; The spanish state -- 3. High culture: Literature and identity ; Theatre ; Conclusion -- 4. The cultural industries: Television ; Cinema ; A trial separation for language and culture? ; Discussion of CiU's approach -- 5. History, tradition and heritage: Legislation and the basis of policy ; History and heritage ; Tradition -- 6. Challenges for the twenty-first century: Globalization : fighting homogenization ; Immigration : fighting hybridization ; Cosmopolitanim, or the preservation of identity? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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