Emancipatory urban citizenship regimes in post-pandemic Catalonia, Scotland, and Wales

Calzada, Igor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4269-830X 2022. Emancipatory urban citizenship regimes in post-pandemic Catalonia, Scotland, and Wales. Social Sciences 11 (12) , 569. 10.3390/socsci11120569

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Abstract

Wide tensions regarding the organization of nation-state power have been triggered over the last years in the UK and Spain. By contrast, in the UK, (i) the plebiscite on Scottish Independence has been characterized since 2014 so far by a regular hegemony of the SNP in Scotland, and (ii) more recently, distinct resilient responses to tackle COVID-19 have dramatically shifted perceptions about the potential constitutional arrangements in Wales partially opposing a state-centric vision of the UK. By contrast, the role played by the constitutionally illegal but socially constitutive referendum in Catalonia on 1 October 2017, remarkably provoked the re-emergence of the Spanish far-right narrative through the surge of the new political party called Vox. In both cases, the urban in Glasgow, Cardiff, and Barcelona has been shaping various oppositions to state-centric agendas, and such oppositions have shaped elections in the UK and Spain. This article sheds light on the distinct, emerging, and emancipatory urban citizenship regimes in Catalonia, Scotland, and Wales, particularly illustrating the roles that Barcelona, Glasgow, and Cardiff, respectively, are playing in articulating a counter-reaction by rescaling a state-centric vision. This article employs past elections’ evidence to illustrate such regimes amid postpandemic times in datafied states.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > J General legislative and executive papers J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN1187 Scotland J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government J Political Science > JX International law J Political Science > JZ International relations T Technology > T Technology (General)
Publisher:	MDPI
ISSN:	2076-0760
Funders:	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
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Date of First Compliant Deposit:	3 December 2022
Date of Acceptance:	30 November 2022
Last Modified:	23 May 2023 16:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/154637

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