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Title: Spain, La Roja, and the forging of the nation: truth or fiction?
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The paper analyzes the role of the national team of Spain denoted by the neologism La Roja in promoting patriotic sentiments and building national unity. In a 2014 study entitled Goles y banderas. Fútbol e identidades nacionales en Espa?a, Alejandro Quiroga Fernández de Soto argues that the successes of the team in 2008-2012 (Champions of Europe in Austria and Switzerland, World Champions in South Africa and again Champions of Europe in Poland and Ukraine), brought about a patriotic revival, while La Roja itself became an integrating factor which united the Spanish regardless of political differences and distinct identities. ; The assertion is highly debatable for two reasons: firstly, the resurgence of the national symbols was temporary and did not occur uniformly across the country, especially in Catalonia and the Basque Country; secondly, it would be more fitting to speak of journalistic patriotism rather than actual patriotic revival within the Spanish society. ; The paper critically assesses the patriotic discourse rooted in the successes of La Roja in 2008-2012. Their poor performance in the last major tournaments in 2014-2018 and absence of any particular euphoria surrounding the national team confirm that the wave of flags which swept the country in the successful period was not an expression of profound, patriotic renewal of national symbols. At most, it may be argued to have been a forced attempt to boost Spanish (centralist) nationalism in the face of the increasingly active peripheral nationalisms, especially its most radical, Catalan embodiment.
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Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
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Przegląd Narodowościowy, t. 10
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- Digital Library of Zielona Góra > Repository > Faculties > Faculty of Education, Psychology and Sociology
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- Digital Library of Zielona Góra > Repository > Scientific journals and UZ publishing series > Review of Nationalities
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Sep 4, 2023
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Sep 4, 2023
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Journal of Nations: tom 1 - Kurdowie
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 2 - Tożsamość narodowa
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 3 - Romowie
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 4 - Mniejszość niemiecka
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 5 - ?Adónde vas, Espana?
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 6: special issue - Jews
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 7 - Świat Słowian
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 8 - Nations without state or states without nations
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 9 - Sport at the expression of nations issues
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 10 - A new wave of separatism in the world
- Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 10 - A new wave of separatism in the world - contents
- Referendums, democracy and separatism
- Nationalism and right to secession: New states, identities and global security
- Authoritarian populism in the US: context and continuity in a post-truth era
- How does secessionism end? No-win scenarios for contemporary American secessionist movements
- The rise of independence feelings in Catalonia and Scotland. A longitudinal study on the profile of independence in the beginning of the 21st century
- Spain, La Roja, and the forging of the nation: truth or fiction?
- Hangary`s and Romania`s exogenous influence on separatism processes in Ukraine
- The position of the Spanish monarchy and Catalan separatism in the 21st century
- The new Catalan nationalism
- Regional identity and its protection on the example of the Valencian Autonomous Community
- The historical background of Catalan separatism: The case of Occitania
- Atheism and the changing image of Islam in Iraq
- When Ukrainian migrant meets a Polish official: Implementing migration policy in the opinions of temporary economic migrants from Ukraine in Poland in a neo-institutional perspective
- Trauma societies and their characteristics: Between evolution and revolution
- What is the contemporary political myth?
- Protection status of the Sami identity in Finland in the first years after accession
- Sovereignty of Member States in New European Pact for Migration and Asylum
- The Free State of Bavaria - between Christianization and secularism
- Police in the nation state - an apolitical and independent institution?
- Election of Bishop Bazyli (Doroszkiewicz) as the Metropolitan of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church as part of the religious policy of the Polish state
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 11 - Social movements and social phenomena
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities: tom 12 - Contemporary issues of nations
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Przegląd Narodowościowy / Journal of Nations: tom 1 - Kurdowie
| Edition name | Date |
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| Spain, La Roja, and the forging of the nation: truth or fiction? | Sep 4, 2023 |
