Mass tourism as cultural trauma: an analysis of the Majorcan comics Els darrers dies de l’Imperi Mallorquí (2014) and Un infern a Mallorca (La decadència de l’Imperi Mallorquí) (2018). Series: Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone cultures (45).ĬOVID summer of 2020: from overtourism to no-tourism in Southern Europe. Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975–2018): Cultural Normalization, Postmodernism and National Politics. Turisme i trauma cultural a Els Carnissers.
Towards a Postcolonial Spain? Framing Violence, National Conflict and Colonialities in Contemporary Spain. Catalan Review, 36(1),Ĭontemporary Majorcan culture and the transnational tourist gaze: colonial dynamics, cultural identity and spatial dispossession. Ultimately, my research seeks to locate the study of Catalan culture within global debates of our time: multilingualism and cultural identity, political authority and popular empowerment, nationalisms and the representation of the Other, leisure mobilities and climate emergency in the twenty-first century.Įls marges dels mapes: una geografia desplaçada, by Àlex Matas Pons. The first output of this project came out in 2019: the article Mass tourism as cultural trauma: an analysis of the Majorcan comics Els darrers dies de l’Imperi Mallorquí (2014) and Un infern a Mallorca (La decadència de l’Imperi Mallorquí) (2018), published in the journal Studies in Comics. I have one book chapters coming out in 2022, two in 2023 and in 2020 I published the dissemination piece ‘ Covid Summer of 2020: From Overtourism to No-Tourism in Southern Europe’ in the online Brave New Europe. My second research project aims to offer novel understandings of contemporary Majorcan culture by exploring mass tourism as a socio-culturally and environmentally traumatic experience for the local population and by interrogating the geocultural colonial dynamics at the core of Majorca’s interrelations with Spain as well as those between the island and Northern European countries. Quim Monzó is considered Catalonia’s most influential contemporary author, and my book is the first major study in the English language of the author’s oeuvre and trajectory. My monograph analyses Quim Monzó’s public trajectory from countercultural artist in the mid-1970s to celebrity author and intellectual in the present day as a phenomenon that has brought to the fore some of the contradictions in the discourses of Catalan cultural normalization vis-à-vis postmodernist attitudes towards the symbolic role of culture and the public intellectual in contemporary Catalonia.
The main outoput of this strand is my recent book “Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975–2018): Cultural Normalization, Postmodernism and National Politics” (Legenda, 2021), which analyses the literary, cultural and artistic production of Catalan author Quim Monzó in relation to the key cultural and political paradigms in contemporary Catalonia, including the oppositional cultural model in the late Francoist period, cultural normalization in democratic Catalonia and the cultural impact of the modern Catalan independence movement in the post-2010 period. My first research project seeks to transform understandings of Catalonia’s culture and politics by analysing the ways in which the unbalanced relations of power between the region and Spain determine discourses and political practices about linguistic and cultural identity, the social question and national independence. Through a focus on the interactions between cultural production, collective and grassroots demands for self-determination and forms of political independence, I approach contemporary Catalan culture as marked by persisting colonial durabilities vis-à-vis Spain and Northern Europe. My work explores the power dynamics that define language, culture and the construction of identity in the Catalan-speaking lands within the wider Spanish context. I am a researcher in contemporary Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies, with a particular focus on Catalan culture and nationalisms in contemporary Spain.
Language, Culture and Identity in the Catalan-Speaking Lands
Catalan and Hispanic Literature and Culture
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