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Politics, folklore and humour: the case of Sant Esteve de les Roures

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    Identifier: imarina:9287617
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9287617
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    Prunera ES
    Abstract:
    After the referendum on the self-determination of Catalonia held on 1 October 2017, the Guardia Civil sent the Supreme Court a report listing acts of alleged violence against police forces that had been sent to Catalonia to stop the referendum from being held. According to the report, the most violent events took place in the village of Sant Esteve de les Roures, a non-existent town. From that moment on, Sant Esteve de les Roures came to life online, as profiles were created for all the services and institutions of the town of 750,000 inhabitants, presided over by its mayor, Josep Orni. The aim of this paper is to trace the general public’s spontaneous creation of Sant Esteve de les Roures, a town invented by the Guardia Civil, as an illustration of creativity and an example of a community overcoming a political crisis through humour.

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    Author, as appears in the article.: Prunera ES
    Department: Filologia Catalana
    URV's Author/s: Samper Prunera, Emili
    Keywords: Sant esteve de les roures Politics Internet Humour Folklore
    Abstract: After the referendum on the self-determination of Catalonia held on 1 October 2017, the Guardia Civil sent the Supreme Court a report listing acts of alleged violence against police forces that had been sent to Catalonia to stop the referendum from being held. According to the report, the most violent events took place in the village of Sant Esteve de les Roures, a non-existent town. From that moment on, Sant Esteve de les Roures came to life online, as profiles were created for all the services and institutions of the town of 750,000 inhabitants, presided over by its mayor, Josep Orni. The aim of this paper is to trace the general public’s spontaneous creation of Sant Esteve de les Roures, a town invented by the Guardia Civil, as an illustration of creativity and an example of a community overcoming a political crisis through humour.
    Thematic Areas: Literature and literary theory Literature Filologías Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Cultural studies Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Antropología
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: emili.samper@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0002-9228-237X
    Record's date: 2024-03-03
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://raco.cat/index.php/ELOP/article/view/411717
    Papper original source: Estudis De Literatura Oral Popular / Studies In Oral Folk Literature. 2022 (11): 79-102
    APA: Prunera ES (2022). Politics, folklore and humour: the case of Sant Esteve de les Roures. Estudis De Literatura Oral Popular / Studies In Oral Folk Literature, 2022(11), 79-102. DOI: 10.17345/elop202279-102
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Article's DOI: 10.17345/elop202279-102
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2022
    Publication Type: Journal Publications

  • Keywords:

    Literature and Literary Theory
    Sant esteve de les roures
    Politics
    Internet
    Humour
    Folklore
    Literature and literary theory
    Literature
    Filologías
    Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística
    Cultural studies
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciencias humanas
    Antropología

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