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100			_aBielsa, Esperança _931896
245			_aFrom ‘the people’ to the crowd: The push for independence in Catalonia
260			_aSocial Science Information
300			_a60(3), Sep, 2021: p.395-412
520			_aThis article examines the sociological value of Elias Canetti’s work on crowds and power. It explores crowd action and imagery in the push for Catalan independence through the analysis of materials published on Twitter by Tsunami Democràtic, which emerged to coordinate the response to the sentencing of Catalan political leaders after the unilateral declaration of independence. It then goes on to discuss how a crowd-based approach offers a supplementary perspective to contemporary studies of populism, on the one hand, and to accounts that primarily focus on the role of social media in organizing political protest movements, on the other. An analysis of crowds not only avoids both methodological holism and methodological individualism. It also helps to understand why so many people were mobilized beyond the power of concepts, ideologies and discourse. – Reproduced
650			_aCatalan independence, Catalonia, Crowds, Elias Canetti, Populism, Twitter _929133
773			_a Social Science Information
906			_aPOLITICS AND GOVERNMENT – CATALONIA
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