Substate nation-building and geographical representations of the "other" in Galicia, Spain (1860-1936)

Substate nation-building and geographical representations of the "other" in Galicia, Spain (1860-1936)

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The "social construction" of otherness and, broadly speaking, the ideological-political AEG HKH81700FB 80cm MaxiSense Rimless Touch Control Induction Hob use of "external" socio-spatial referents have become important topics in contemporary studies on territorial identities, nationalisms and nation-building processes, geography included.After some brief, introductory theoretical reflections, this paper examines the contribution of geographical discourses, arguments and images, "sensu lato", in the definition of the external socio-spatial identity referents of Galician nationalism # Fringe Headstall and Breastcollar Sets in Spain, during the period 1860-1936.In this discourse Castile was typically represented as "the other" (the negative, opposition referent), against which Galician identity was mobilised, whereas Portugal, on the one hand, together with Ireland and the so-called "Atlantic-Celtic naionalities", on the other hand, were positively constructed as integrative and emulation referents.