Cantabria: una "comunidad histórica" (del tiempo presente). Lo urbano como espacio social de la invención de una conciencia regionalista

MONTESINO GONZÁLEZ, Antonio

Publication year:

1999

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-958-4

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

In 1981, Cantabria obtained the first statute of autonomy of its history. This means, talking about a new historical community which has arisen recently, or present, of the history, itself under the protection of the re-establishment in Spain of the constitutional order and the territorial reorganization of the state. In this process of social construction of regionalist consciousnees, the mesocracy, the regionalist movements of Cantabria have played an important role that setting up in the political, social, cultural and economical centralism, they have spread out its speech strategies, based on the invention of a regional tradition, which is understood under an essentialism of identity, which is nostalgic of a idyllic traditional rural world, which has nothing to do with the modern concept of political community, based on the necessary recognition of a social citizenry and a democratical state of right, being able of legitimizing both the individuals autonomy and the society which they belong to.