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Places/Non-places: Galicia on the Road of St. James

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This chapter offers a critical reconsideration of the theory according to which the Road of St. James (Camiño de Santiago) provides a site for ethnic identity-making capable of modernizing Galicia as a rural region. By definition, a route or itinerary—rather than a fixed site of any kind—provides a sequence of places to pass through, overlapping in an intriguing way with Marc Augé’s concept of “non-places.” Putting into a comparative perspective the measures that led to the consolidation of the Road as a trans-regional and transnational itinerary during the presidency of the conservative Partido Popular in Galicia between 1990 and 2005, the essay demonstrates that the configuration of a regional image based on a larger itinerary may respond to broader, questionable, European agendas.

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    Eugenia Afinoguénova

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    Benita Sampedro Vizcaya

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    José A. Losada Montero

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Afinoguénova, E. (2017). Places/Non-places: Galicia on the Road of St. James . In: Sampedro Vizcaya, B., Losada Montero, J. (eds) Rerouting Galician Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65729-5_9

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