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The historical period known as Procés, or the Catalan independence process, has been characterized by an extraordinary political activation that has led to the generation of mass mobilizations. In this process, the individual and collective experimentation of emotions and affections has had a fundamental weight that has not only conditioned political experiences but has created new ones. Ethnographic work has shed light to the idea that the emotion of fear has been widely experienced by supporters of Catalan independence, both on a latent and unspecific level, as a constant threat, but also in specific and localized episodes temporally and spatially. Far from serving to disactivate political activities, fear has activated individual and collective strategies, creating new affective networks, which have made it possible to link the political and mobilizing sphere with the emotional one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article seeks to contribute to the knowledge of contemporary independentism through the anthropological study of the relationship between imagination and politics. It argues this approach allows decentralizing nationalism as an interpretive framework, thus to incorporate the social production of social totalities relevant to actors themselves who, in this case, challenge the hyphen between the State and the Nation. Through an ethnographic approach, it develops the case of the Gure Esku Dago, a movement that emerged in the Basque Country in 2013 under the motto of fostering the right to decide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]