Building a new Catalonia Edited by Ignasi Bernat and David Whyte

This is a large collection of short reflections on the situation in Catalonia since the October 2017 referendum – and that continues to be played out, most recently with the jailing of the political leaders of Catalonia.

This collection suggests that there has been a comprehensive exercise in collective forgetting, and in so doing it shines a light on the way that the transition from Franco to democracy was not a complete process. This week the remains of Franco have been moved from the national tomb, as step in the right direction, but how far is there left to travel...

That Spain and Catalonia are in a troubled place has gone unnoticed in UK because we have been distracted by our relationship with the EU?

However as you progress through the collection the more specifically left-wing the solutions, and the sense of a partisan analysis perhaps undermines the earlier insights...