Gunzelmann

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.