Substate nation-building and geographical representations of the "other" in Galicia, Spain (1860-1936)

Substate nation-building and geographical representations of the "other" in Galicia, Spain (1860-1936)

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The "social construction" of otherness and, broadly speaking, the ideological-political use of "external" socio-spatial referents have become important topics in contemporary studies on territorial identities, nationalisms and nation-building processes, geography included.After some brief, introductory theoretical reflections, this Crops paper examines the contribution of geographical discourses, arguments and images, "sensu lato", in the definition of the external socio-spatial identity referents of Galician nationalism in Spain, during the period 1860-1936.In this discourse Castile was typically represented as "the other" (the negative, opposition referent), against which VIT A WRINKLE CREME Galician identity was mobilised, whereas Portugal, on the one hand, together with Ireland and the so-called "Atlantic-Celtic naionalities", on the other hand, were positively constructed as integrative and emulation referents.