Marcel A. Farinelli

En este articulo el autor, historiador originario de la minoría catalana de Italia (l'Alguer, en la isla de Cerdeña), analiza el auge del soberanismo catalán posterior a 2012 desde el emplazamiento más lejano de la comunidad de catalanohablantes. Farinelli nos presenta las relaciones entre el enclave isleño y el resto de la comunidad lingüística, en una narración que permite evidenciar complejidad y contradicciones del discurso nacionalista que, desde una perspectiva catalanocéntrica, sería difícil de percibir. Palabras clave: Alguer, Cerdeña, catalanismo, independencia catalana, irredentismo

In the history of Modern Europe, islands have generally been considered as passive spaces. Historically, however, Mediterranean island societies have played important—and often active—roles in the formation of nation-states and in nation-building processes. Little attention has been paid to the ways in which island societies have affected mainland nationalism. This article argues that Mediterranean islands offered rhetorical and symbolic elements that proved useful for the construction of mainland European national identities, largely because islandness, from a continental perspective, was seen as capable of conserving authenticity. This article draws upon the Mediterranean island case studies of Sardinia and Corsica and their relationships to Catalan nationalism, French nationalism, and Italian nationalism as well as wider nation-building processes.

L'Alguer (Alghero in Italian, S'Alighera in Sardinian) is a coastal town on the Island of Sardinia. Founded by the powerful Genoese family of the Doria, in 1354 it fell in the hands of the Kingdom of Aragon, as one of the first strongholds in a long war to conquer the whole island. The town was entirely evacuated by its Genoese-Sardinian inhabitants, and repopulated by Catalans settlers. Nowadays its inhabitants speak dialectal forms of Catalan, influenced by Sardinian and Italian, despite the institutional link to the others parts of the Aragonese Crown broke down in the aftermath of the War of Spanish Succession. The existence of this Catalan-speaking community aroused interest and curiosity between intellectuals and politicians, particularly the nationalists, from the Reinaxença until today. Currently l'Alguer is included in the map of the Països Catalans [Catalan-speaking territories]. Nonetheless, the small town is bereft of a Catalan nationalist movement, only a minority have passed from a folkloric and cultural view to a more political interpretation of the relationship with the linguistic 'homeland'. This paper aims to analyse the reasons of the invisibility of Catalonia as motherland seen (or unseen) from the Mediterranean city.

Les relacions entre l'Alguer, minoria catalana a Sardenya, i la resta de la comunitat catalanoparlant en edat contemporània han estat complexos, sobretot els primers anys després la segona guerra mundial. En aquest article, desprès d'una panoràmica sobre aquestes relacions, es vol reconstruir com es van relligar als anys cinquanta i seixanta del segle XX, a través de l'anomenat “viatge del retrobament” i dels Jocs Florals de l'any 1961; al mateix moment es vol esbrinar quin tipus de significació política tenien aquestes relacions i aquests actes pels protagonistes, tan catalans com algueresos.

In the modern era relationship between l'Alguer-Alghero, the catalan minority in the island of Sardinia, and the rest of the catalan-speaking comunity, have been complicated, mainly during the Franco and Mussolini dictatorships and after the II World War. This article deals about thoose relationships and his renewal in the decades on `50 and `60, due by two importants events: the so called “rediscovery cruise” of 1960 and a catalan poetry contest celebrated in the sardinian city the year 1961; the article also talks about the political dimension of thoose events, both for the catalans and citizens of l'Alguer-Alghero.

This article examines the reclamation project of a marsh area in the north-west of Sardinia, a plain called Nurra, near the city of Alghero, that was planned during the fascist regime. The project included the building of a new town, Fertilia, and the colonization of the entire area exclusively by peasants from the province of Ferrara. The marsh area was under the administration of the Alghero city administration, the nearest urban centre, that was also the only Catalan speaking minority in Sardinia and Italy. Analyzing the case study of the new ...

En los estudios sobre la creación plástica, desde la pintura hasta la fotografía, resulta peor que un cliché aludir al ya tópico ensayo del crítico marxista alemán Walter Benjamin sobre la transformación del arte por la reproducibilidad. En cambio, no se comenta en la historia de la música al uso del grado en el cual formas populares de ritmos pueden no ya crear una industria local entre discos, radio y salas o espacios de baile. El joven historiador y músico, Marcel A. Farinelli, estudia aquí la transformación del mundo político jamaicano por la discografía local, hasta generar patrones musicales de impacto universal, que han resultado muy duraderos. El " mensaje " musical puede establecerse e la forma misma, sin necesidad de remitirse a las letras de las canciones (aunque eso también). El consumo se identifica con estilos, moldea la producción a través de la demanda, y al mismo tiempo configura un universo político local en el cual el pasatiempo se convierte en industria, en alineamiento de opinión, de dependencia y hasta de acción de combate armado (con e l posse jamaicano). En resumen, la identificación musical se hace nacional y nacionalista, con dureza, y no al revés.

Ponència a les jornades d'estudi "Secessionisme i Primera Guerra Mundial", organitzades pel GRENS i IUHJVV a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Paper discussed at the workshop "Secessionism and the First World War", organized by the GRENS and IUHJVV at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Intervento nell'ambito della conferenza "Il seccessionismo e la Prima Guerra Mondiale", organizzata dal GRENS e dall'IUHJVV all'Università Pompeu Fabra.

Ponència dins de la Jornada "La fi de la Belle Époque i la Gran Guerra", organtizada pe GRENS i  l'IUHJVV (UPF).

Paper presented at the workshop "The End of the Belle Époque and First World War", organized by the GRENS resarch group and IUHJVV of the UPF.

Intervento al workshop "La fine della Belle Èpoque e la Prima Guerra Mondiale", organizzato dal gruppo di ricerca GRENS della UPF