This paper explores the nationalist conflict in Catalonia and how it is lived and experienced by actors within it. It focuses on the people mobilised against independence who see themselves primarily as defenders of the Spanish Constitution and not of Spanish nationalism. Critics of civic nationalism in political theory and Nationalism Studies argue that anti‐nationalist rhetoric tends to be the expression of structural or hegemonic nationalism. Drawing on fieldwork carried out in Barcelona, I look at how the conflict has influenced discourse and language used in everyday life, how participants negotiate their identity, why people do (and do not) get involved in organisations that defend their political ideas, how they see themselves within the conflict and their perceptions of public space and its significance in relation to the constitution. An ethnographic approach explores these issues and discovers that although anti‐independence actors base their mobilisation in nationalism, civic nationalism cannot be reduced to just another form of nationalism. I aim to go beyond critics of civic nationalism to explore how my interlocutors act within and against nationalism, reproducing nationalist discourse in some aspect (boundaries of the nation) in order to challenge it in others (content and relevance of nationalism in everyday life).

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加泰罗尼亚的西班牙宪政：公民民族主义的人类学

本文探讨了加泰罗尼亚的民族主义冲突及其中的行为者如何生活和经历这种冲突。它侧重于动员起来反对独立的人民，他们主要将自己视为西班牙宪法的捍卫者，而不是西班牙民族主义的捍卫者。政治理论和民族主义研究对公民民族主义的批评者认为，反民族主义的修辞往往是结构性或霸权民族主义的表达。借助在巴塞罗那进行的实地考察，我研究了冲突如何影响日常生活中的话语和语言，参与者如何协商其身份，人们为什么（或不参与）捍卫其政治思想的组织，他们如何在冲突中看到自己，他们对公共空间的看法及其对宪法的意义。人种学方法探讨了这些问题，发现尽管反独立行为者动员了民族主义，但公民民族主义并不能沦为另一种民族主义形式。我的目标是超越对公民民族主义的批评，探索我的对话者如何在民族主义内部和对民族主义采取行动，在某些方面（民族边界）复制民族主义话语，以便在其他方面挑战民族主义话语（日常生活中民族主义的内容和相关性）。