Marc Sanjaume-Calvet challenges the widespread belief that independence referendums are definitive acts of self-determination. Drawing on cases from Western Sahara to Bougainville, he argues that these votes often serve merely symbolic or strategic functions. Here, he reveals the persistent gap between democratic aspirations and the real politics of statehood
We often link denialism and opposition to environmental issues to far-right parties, yet this is an oversimplification. Camil Ungureanu, Marc Sanjaume-Calvet and Balsa Lubarda argue that some centre-right parties, by downplaying ecological concerns and framing ecology as 'the new communism', paved the way for far-right climate denialism.
Assistant Professor of Political Theory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Formerly, Marc was Assistant Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Advisor at Self-Government Studies Institute - Institut dâEstudis de lâAutogovern and Visiting Researcher at Edinburgh University in Scotland and Laval University in Quebec.
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