Comunidad imaginada y gobernanza en la acción cultural exterior de Cataluña: entre la participación social y el corporativismo

EnglishBenedict Anderson (1993) defined nation as “an imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign”, and stressed the importance of cultural roots for the establishment of this national consciousness. Cultural diplomacy, organized by nation-states since the early 20th century and politically structured on the basis of this sovereign and imagined space, sought to extend the influence of countries through the promotion of national culture on the international scenario. This article examines, by contrasting Anderson ideas, the impact of nationalism on the organization of a corporatist structure for the governance of Catalan foreign cultural action between 1980 and 2014. catalaBenedict Anderson (1993) va definir nacio com “una comunitat politica imaginada, que s’imagina alhora com a inherentment limitada i com a sobirana” i va incidir en la importancia de les arrels culturals per a la constitucio d'aquesta consciencia nacional. Les diplomacies culturals, organitzades pels Estats-nacio des d’inicis del segle XX i estructurades politicament sobre la base d’aquest espai sobira i imaginat, van buscar estendre la influencia dels paisos mitjancant la promocio de la cultura nacional en l’escenari internacional. En aquest article examinarem, des d'un plantejament proper al d’Anderson, la incidencia del nacionalisme en l’estructuracio de la governanca corporativista en l’accio cultural exterior de Catalunya entre 1980 i 2014.