The Idea of Landscape in Galician Culture as an Example of Linguistic Diglossia between Galician and Spanish

Abstract

The idea of landscape in Galicia, a stateless nation in northwestern Spain, has historically been intertwined with the construction of its cultural and communal identity. However, this process has also been shaped by a regionalist discourse originating from the Spanish center, which instrumentalizes the Galician landscape as an ornamental feature of the state. In this discourse, Galicia's landscape is valued not for its agricultural productivity but for the exoticism of its forms. This paper explores the tensions that emerge at the intersection of these two perspectives on the Galician landscape.