My research focuses essentially on the sociology of contemporary Brittany and, more broadly, on minority identities and places that democratic societies grant them. I also work on the Breton language: dialectology and literature.
Richard Parry discusses the impact of three speeches in Florence, Glasgow and Barcelona.
It is time to listen to those proposals for a path forward that lie between independence and the status quo, says Professor Luis Moreno.
Daniel Cetrà on how the main political consequence of Sunday’s events is that the Spanish Government has lost the battle of legitimacy in Catalonia.
Although questions of what national self-determination means and how it can be exercised have changed over time, says Michael Keating, the response of the Spanish authorities to the 2017 Catalan referendum breaches the modern, democratic, notion of the right to decide.
Amidst the current, noisy, political debate about ‘bonanzas’ and ‘power grabs’ there is some measure of consensus between the UK and Scottish Governments as regards the need for (and value of) UK-wide ‘common frameworks’ post-Brexit, especially in relation to the functioning of markets within the UK. However, as Shepherd and Wedderburn's Gordon Downie explains, what might be described as the opening negotiating positions of the UK and Scottish Governments reveal wide differences on the scope and content of these new common frameworks, and on the constitutional mechanics that should underpin them.