Organizing for Independence: Secessionist Protest, Organizational Change, and the Referendum Crisis in Catalonia

Independence protests are on the rise across Europe. The largest wave of these swept Catalonia reaching its peak in 2017 when the push for a binding referendum led to an unprecedented secessionist crisis. This explores the question of how the referendum crisis as a threat and opportunity transformed secessionist protest and its organizational basis

Hans Jonas Gunzelmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He most recently published ＂Counter-surveillant Organizing during the Secessionist Cycle of Contention in Catalonia＂ in Social Movement Studies.