Anti-nuclear and nationalist movements. Social and environmental conflicts in the rural Basque Country and Galicia during the Spanish transition
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Abstract
Our aim in this article is to know more about the interaction between rural societies and nationalist political parties and trade unions in the Basque Country and Galicia during the political period known as «Spanish Transition» (1976-1982). The paper mainly focuses on a specific kind of conflicts (environmental conflicts) and on the social mobilization that it provoked into Galician and Basque rural communities. As case study we have chosen the opposition against several projects to set up nuclear power plants in the north of the Galician province of Lugo (power plant of Regodela-Xove) and in the Basque Cantabrian coast (nuclear plants of Deba and Lemóniz). We analyze if these nationalist parties and unions tried to use this type of protest with electoral objectives and to strengthen their political influence into the Galician and Basque rural contexts, taking part in the conflicts with an ecologist discourse. We also focus on the paths for the social construction of protest inside the rural communities of northern Spain.
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Galicia, Basque Country, nationalism, transition to democracy, antinuclear movement, rural world, social and environmental conflicts
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