Futures Past: Horizons of expectation for North American Catalan Studies

• Autores: William Viestenz
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 37, 2023, págs. 67-72
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article returns to a speculative critique on the state of Catalan Studies in the North American academy published in 2004 by Joan Ramon Resina titled “Hi ha futur per als estudis catalans a l’Amèrica del Nord?” This return to the past is mediated by the distinction that Reinhart Kosselleck makes between two historical categories: expectation and experience. In a post-pandemic, post-recession academic landscape that privileges survival as the dominant mode of being in the field, the article concludes that the melancholic narrowing of the field is countered by a productive opening of creative research possibilities made possible by the retrenchment of market considerations.