Catalunya Nord, o dues lògiques territorials contraposades

Abstract

In North Catalonia, two territorial logics intersect: that of the French State, which considers the territory as its own, and that of the Generalitat de Catalunya, which considers it «of its own language», and therefore, within a continuity that has been cross-border since the Treaty of the Pyrenees. This configuration has many repercussions at the local level, and on the «rest» of the French State, considered as an «external» territory. This article aims to elucidate this problem, complex and sometimes contradictory, in concrete terms, at the state, 'regional' and local levels, of institutions (in Perpignan, Casa de la Generalitat, Casa dels Països Catalans, IEC, Xarxa Vives, Oficina Pública de la Llengua Catalana; in Paris, Delegació del Govern, Institut Ramon Llull), and of local activist associations (Bressola and Arrels schools, Ràdio Arrels, Casal català, Aire Nou de Bao, Centre Cultural Català del Vallespir, Oui au Pays catalan. It is clear that, in this case as in any other, linguistic-cultural policy is politics, power relations and diplomacy.

Keywords

• North Catalonia
• Generalitat de Catalunya
• French State
• territory
• control