O Nacionalismo e separatismo catalão: uma análise acerca da influência do FC Barcelona no referendo de 2017

Abstract

On this study the main goal is to observe the Catalunha’s separatist issue with the scope on the influence of the FC Barcelonas’s figures that were in favor of the separation. On this path, our question speculates, first, which is the real influence of soccer regarding this context? Besides that, we question if the favourable voices from FC Barcelona were important for the rise of the spirits. Our hypothesis punctuates that FC Barcelona plays a central role on the Catalan’s nationalism and, therefore, its influence on the separatist ascencion cannot be relegated to secondrank. In terms of theoretical frame, we will base our analyses on the transnationalism approach, demonstrating how transnational actors, in this case the FC Barcelona, can interfere in the Countrie’s decision-making process and also we are going to discuss about nationalism. Methodologically, our operationalization follows a historical review about the catalan nationalism’s construction and, in a similar way, we tried to observe how this influence shows itself.