Modern Societies and National Identities

Engages with the political trajectories of Euskadi and Navarre populations during nineteenth and twentieth century civil wars to interpret the political history of Spain

Incorporates into its sociological analysis the understanding of law put forward by legal realism and legal pluralism

Explores how modern legal thought influences modernist interpretations of nationalism

Autorentext

Unai Urrastabaso Ruiz obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He is currently establishing himself as an independent researcher, co-founding emerging projects such as Ikena Estudios Sociales.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Basque-Spanish Nationalist Conflict.- 3. A Legal Presumption in Modernist Interpretations of Nationalism.- 4. Legal Positivism, Legal Realism and Legal Pluralism.- 5. Carlism: The Meaning of the Counter-Revolution.- 6. Governance in Navarre 1840-1936.- 7. The Fueros and the Creation of the Basque Country.- 8. Modern National Identities in Navarre and Euskadi.- 9. Conclusion.