ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the 2017 referendum crisis transformed secessionist protest and its underlying organizational structures. It traces the trajectory of the Catalan secessionist protest cycle from its emergence in 2009 until the eruption of the Covid‐19 pandemic in 2020. I draw on original protest event data to show how secessionist contention became more frequent and disruptive during the secessionist crisis. Data on the compound players participating in these protests illustrate that organizational structures do not represent a necessary condition for protest. They also allow the tracing of the emergence of new players in the protest arena. Network analyses of these data show how organizing between the key compound players increased during the secessionist crisis and declined afterwards.
