Doctoral Dissertation Research: Citizenship in Action: The Construction of Working-Class Political Identity in Three Spanish Cities, 1898-1923

在西班牙1898年失去最后一批海外殖民地和1923年引发里维拉总统独裁统治的政变所构筑的四分之一个世纪里，西班牙的城市一直在为政治身份而激烈斗争。在城市街道上，共和党人、社会主义者和无政府主义者争夺支持，不同城市的结果不同。这个项目是对巴塞罗那、巴伦西亚和阿利坎特工人阶级政治认同建设的比较研究，试图解释为什么在这个时代，同一国家背景下的城市有非常不同的工人阶级政治隶属模式，特别是为什么激进的无政府主义运动在一些城市比在其他城市更成功。本文对现有的关于政治认同决定因素的理论进行了挑战，提出了一种新的理论方法，强调城市政治实践形式在构建政治公民中的重要性，进而在民族国家的构建和巩固中发挥重要作用。假说将通过对这三个城市在25年期间政治行动形式发展的历史比较分析来检验。主要数据来源将是设在每个地方的专门档案馆和阿姆斯特丹国际社会史研究所的期刊；将从地方行政档案馆获得更多证据。该项目更广泛的影响包括：通过利用一个被忽视的经验案例，该论文有助于身份形成领域的理论发展，以产生一个具有更广泛影响的原创理论框架，以理解历史进程和当代现象，包括中东和拉丁美洲激进运动与城市抗议的关系，以及更广泛地说，国家合法化与替代政治形式的关系。以图片展的形式公开展示证据，记录妇女和其他代表性不足群体的政治参与，将有助于更广泛地传播社会学研究和理论。

In the quarter of a century framed by Spain's 1898 loss of its last overseas colonial possessions and the 1923 coup initiating the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, Spanish cities were sites of intense struggle over political identity. On city streets, republicans, socialists, and anarchosyndicalists competed for support, with different outcomes across cities. This project ia a comparative study of the construction of working-class political identity in Barcelona, Valencia, and Alicante that seeks to explain why cities within the same national context had very different patterns of working-class political affiliation during this era, and specifically why the radical anarchosyndicalist movement was much more successful in some cities than in others. The dissertation challenges existing theories concerning the determinants of political identity, developing a new theoretical approach which emphasizes the importance of forms of urban political practice in the construction of political citizenship, and by extension in the construction and consolidation of national states. Hypotheses will be tested through historical-comparative analysis of the development of forms of political action in these three cities throughout the 25-year period. The primary data source will be periodicals, located in specialized archives in each locality and at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; additional evidence will be obtained from local administrative archives. This project's broader impacts include: The dissertation contributes to theoretical development in the area of identity-formation by drawing upon a neglected empirical case to produce an original theoretical framework with broader implications for understanding both historical processes and contemporary phenomena, including the relationship of radical movements to urban protest in the Middle East and Latin America, and, more broadly, the legitimization of the state versus alternative political forms. The public presentation of evidence in the form of a photographic exhibit, documenting the political participation of women and other underrepresented groups, will contribute to the broader dissemination of sociological research and theory.