Doctoral Dissertation Research: Financial Nationalism, Banking Systems, and Citizenship: The Case of Catalan

加州大学戴维斯分校博士生Jorge Nunez将在Alan Klima博士的指导下，对文化、民族主义和银行体系改革之间的关系进行研究。这项研究将在西班牙的工业加泰罗尼亚地区进行，这是合适的，因为在2010年，为了解决2008年全球金融危机引发的流动性问题，加泰罗尼亚政府推出了一项公共债务计划，以债券的形式直接出售给公民。该项目被命名为“Seny”，在加泰罗尼亚语中意味着理智和良好的判断力，似乎是针对长期活跃在加泰罗尼亚独立政治斗争中的加泰罗尼亚公民。尽管来自大众传播媒介、社会运动和政党的各种批评，但政府的战略是一项成功的财政运作，造成了比最初报价两倍的超额需求。本研究的目的是研究是什么让加泰罗尼亚公民在这种风险投资上下注，以及这个案例可能为全球经济中的民族主义和债务改革提供什么更普遍的教训。Jorge Nunez将在巴塞罗那、塔拉戈纳、赫罗纳以及法属加泰罗尼亚地区进行实地考察。他将结合民族志方法，包括深度访谈、焦点小组和参与者观察，以收集关键参与者（如公务员、金融专家和公民投资者）的经验数据。该项目将有助于理解欧元区主权债务危机后新兴形式的金融民族主义。通过调查金融体系来阐明加泰罗尼亚的民族主义问题，本研究希望产生新的概念工具来研究公民身份、民族主义和银行体系的文化联系。本研究也将增加区域货币统一时代金融一体化进程的实证信息。资助这项研究支持了研究生的教育。

University of California-Davis doctoral student Jorge Nunez, supervised by Dr. Alan Klima, will undertake research on the relationship between culture, nationalism, and banking system reform. The research will be conducted in the industrial Catalonia region of Spain, which is appropriate because in 2010, with the aim of solving liquidity problems derived from the 2008 global financial crises, the Generalitat of Catalonia launched a public debt package sold directly to citizens in the form of bonds. The project was named "Seny," which means sanity and good judgment in Catalan and appeared to address Catalan citizens active in a long-standing political struggle for Catalonia independence. Despite various critiques coming from mass media, social movements and political parties, the Generalitat's strategy was a successful financial operation creating an over-demand twice the size of the initial offer. The objective of this research is to study what made Catalan citizens wager on this risky investment and what more general lessons this case might offer about nationalism and debt reform in the global economy.Jorge Nunez will conduct fieldwork in Barcelona, Tarragona, and Girona as well as the French Catalan region. He will employ a combination of ethnographic methods including in-depth interviews, focus groups and participant observation in order to gather empirical data amongst key actors, such as public servants, financial experts, and citizen investors. This project will contribute to the understanding of emerging forms of financial nationalism in the aftermath of the sovereign debt crisis in the Euro zone. By investigating the financial system to shed light into the issue of nationalism in Catalonia, this study hopes to produce new conceptual tools to look at the cultural articulations of citizenship, nationalism and the banking system. This research will also add empirical information about processes of financial integration in an era of regional monetary unification. Funding this research supports the education of a graduate student.