The Social Movement in Favour of the Normalization of the Basque Language

• Autores: Xabier Mendiguren Bereziartu, Joxe Jabier Iñigo
• Localización: The case of basque: Past, present and future / coord. por María José Azurmendi Ayerbe, Iñaki Martínez de Luna Pérez de Arriba, 2006, ISBN 978-84-609-9703-0, págs. 53-66
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The authors of this paper conduct a detailed examination of the social movement in favour of the normalisation of the Basque language. The analysis of the organisations that make up this movement and the activities that they undertake lead the authors to an interesting point: the doing/influencing binomial. In this article a clear bid is being made for the social movement to invest more resources and effort in the work of social and politico-institutional influence (influencing), since there is a clear imbalance between this work and the work of normalisation (doing) to which over 99% of the economic and human resources are devoted. The creation of the Council of Social Organisations in favour of Basque (Kontseilua) has been an important element in enabling the broad social support for the revival of the language to have greater sway in the social and politico-institutional spheres. Likewise, Kontseilua is an important factor for the internal cohesion of such an extensive and plural social movement.