Legacy and Rupture: the Political Learning of Young Left-wing Basque Nationalists in the Post-ETA Period
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2022-07-21Metadatos
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Young 31(1) : 22-37 (2023)
Resumen
The article examines ways in which the left-wing nationalist movement in the
Basque Country has offered a framework of opportunity for the construction of
activist youth agency. It also identifies transformations in youth activist practices
over the last decade, following the cessation of ETA´s armed activity. Based
on in-depth interviews, we set out to reconstruct the evolution of the political
learning and trajectories of youth from the Basque Nationalist left during this
period. The analysis of these young peoples’ narratives allows us to understand
some of the meanings that they attach to their current political practices. With
respect to inherited political traditions, continuity was manifest in the existence
of enduring dispositions favourable to counter-hegemonic activism. Changes were
manifest in the adaptation of these dispositions to new political conditions through
progressively more individualized forms of political action, connected to emerging
contemporary agendas.