The Basque Language (Euskera) As an Ideological Instrument in the Historical Construction of Basque Ethnic Identity
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Title: | The Basque Language (Euskera) As an Ideological Instrument in the Historical Construction of Basque Ethnic Identity |
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Authors: | Ullán de la Rosa, Francisco Javier |
Research Group/s: | Laboratorio de Sociología y Antropología Social Aplicadas al Cambio y Desarrollo Social (ANTROSOCLAB) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Sociología II |
Keywords: | Basque ethnic identity | Basque nationalism | Euskera |
Issue Date: | 1-Oct-2022 |
Publisher: | Sciendo |
Citation: | Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics. 2022, 16(2): 234-254. https://doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0007 |
Abstract: | This paper analyzes how studies of a language and the language itself can be used as symbolic instruments to construct or support a differential ideological identity. The analyses of these studies have allowed us to undertake a sort of “archaeology” of the process of Basque ethnogenesis. All the authors instrumentalized philological studies as a way of expressing and claiming their ethnic identity, building their arguments on the basis of previous works (the “archaeological” layer being immediately underneath) at the same time that they reformulated them in order to better suit their specific conception of Basque identity as well as their particular sociopolitical interests. As if we were looking at a stratigraphic cut of an uninterrupted human settlement, the research unravels the existence of a narrative thread that, stratum upon stratum (that is, author upon author) connects the Basque chroniclers of the 16th to 18th centuries with the romantic fuerista writers of the 19th century, as well as Sabino de Arana-Goiri, the founder of the contemporary Basque Nationalist Party. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/128500 |
ISSN: | 2570-5857 |
DOI: | 10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0007 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2022 Francisco Javier Ullán de la Rosa, published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0007 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - ANTROSOCLAB - Artículos de Revistas |
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