Dr Andrew Dowling
Overview
Position:
Lecturer in Spanish History
Email:
DowlingA@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 2087 5608
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 75608
Location: Room 1.12, 65-68 Park Place
Research Unit
European Governance, Identity and Public Policy
Related Links
The Anglo-Catalan Society
AVUI
El Temps
Teaching Profile
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Spain (Year One)
Politics and Society in Spain (Year Two)
The Politics of Conflict: Spain 1898-1975 (Year Four)
May 68: Marking Changes in European Politics and Culture (Year Four)
Postgraduate:
Nationalism in Europe (Co-ordinator)
MA European Studies
MScEcon in European Governance and Public Policy
Research Methods and Skills
Publications
Authored Books
Catalonia since the Spanish Civil War Reconstructing the Nation, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, Spring 2012, Isbn: 978-1-84519-530-4
Refereed journal articles
‘The reconstitution of political Catalanism, 1939-1975’, International Journal of Iberian Studies, Vol. 14, no.1, 2001
‘The Catholic Church in Catalonia. From Cataclysm in the Civil War to the “Euphoria” of the 1950s’, Catalan Review, International Journal of Catalan Culture, Vol. 20, no. 1, 2006
‘Autonomistes, Catalanistes and Independentistes. Politics in Contemporary Catalonia’, International Journal of Iberian Studies, Vol. 22, no.2, 2009
‘For Christ and Catalonia: Catholic Catalanism and nationalist revival in late Francoism’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 47, no. 3, July 2012
Chapters in books
ETA and the Basques’, ‘Catalan Protests against Centralism’ and ‘Salvador Puig i Antich’ in Immanuel Ness (Ed.), ‘International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest’, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008
‘Convergència i Unió, Catalonia and the new Catalanism’ in Sebastian Balfour (Ed.) ‘The Politics of Contemporary Spain’, London: Routledge, 2005
Other publications
Co-authored with Nick Parsons and Nick Phelps, ‘Post-Suburban Europe: Planning and Politics at the Margin of Europe’s Capital Cities’, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Co-authored with N. Phelps and N. Parsons, ‘Business at the margins? Business interests in edge urban politics’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 30, no. 2, 2006
Biography
I am a historian working in the Hispanic Studies Department within the School and joined Cardiff University in 2002 from the Department of History at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to this, I spent seven years in the city of Barcelona, where I completed my doctorate. My PhD is from the University of Southampton for a study of Catalan nationalism and religious culture during the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975). This was followed by a period of post-doctoral research in Barcelona.
My research has centred on Catalan history in the 20th century and in particular, the political articulation of Catalan nationalism under both the Franco dictatorship and democratic Spain.
I teach courses on the modern and contemporary history of Spain, as well as on Basque, student and labour protest culture in Spain for a School-wide module and co-ordinate a post-graduate pathway on ‘Nationalism in Europe’.
Between April and August 2012 I was a Visiting Scholar at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain. This was to enable me to research a historical project on the construction of pan-Catalanist identity.
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students on any area of modern Catalan history and politics.
I am editing a Special Issue of the International Journal of Iberian Studies in the summer of 2013 on Nationalisms in Spain in a Context of Economic Crisis