The concept of nation, today (DOI: 10.2436/20.3000.02.38) Authors Salvador Giner Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Oriol Homs NOTUS-Applied Social Research Abstract The events in Catalonia today are unquestionably serious and unique. They are calling on us to make an effort to understand them in all their complexity. We have developed these reflections with the intention of being impartial and even-keeled, as they follow neither the line nor the ideology of any party or political movement. We want to expand on and deepen what we said in our book Raó de Catalunya, La societat catalana al segle XXI (Giner and Homs, 2016), a compilation of different authors' contributions which we co-edited, and to which we also contributed.Original source: Revista Eines, 30: 26-34 (2018) Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF Issue No. 8 (2018) Section Sociology License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On publishing articles to the journal Catalan Social Sciences Review (CSSR), authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Philosophy and Social Sciences Section (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles published in Catalan Social Sciences Review (CSSR).Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Philosophy and Social Sciences Section declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Catalan Social Sciences Review (CSSR) is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.