A political geographical study of Basque nationalism in the globalizing era

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01190
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 04020:Human geography-related
• Research Institution: Kyoritsu Women's University
• Principal Investigator: Ishii Hisao 共立女子大学, 国際学部, 教授 (70272127)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: バスク地方 / バスク・ティアスポラ / バスク・ナショナリズム / 政治地理学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Basque nationalism in the Basque Country is shifting from a radical movement aimed at independence to a silent one as daily act. The nationalism shift is not only limited to the Basque language and culture normalization by the public sectors, but is also practiced as a salient nationalism movement in the private sectors, taking a variety of forms such as local festivals, commemoration of local collective memory, and converging into the daily acts by the Basque people. In the Basque diaspora in the Americas, the nationalism shift has continued form the 1980s, taking a form of reinforcement of the members. The shift is promoted by the flow of funds and information by the Basque Government Foreign Affairs Department. This is a postmodern form of mobility and nationalism shift practiced across two continents.

Free Research Field

人文地理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ナショナリズム・シフトを分析する新しい視点を提供することで、バスク・ナショナリズム研究の分野の新たな方向性を示すことができた。同時に、地理学がナショナリズム研究に貢献するための方法論を提示することができた。こうした視点は日本のネイション形成研究にも応用可能であろうし、周辺諸国との間でネイションにまつわる言説の緊張が高まることに対する解決策を考える一助になるであろう。