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26 Rev. Const. Stud. 137 (2021-2022)
Unsettled and Free in the Here and Now

handle is hein.journals/revicos26 and id is 140 raw text is: Review Essay Unsettled and Free in the Here and Now Pablo Ouziel* A multilogue on Alain-G Gagnon, The Legitimacy Clash: Challenges to Democracy in Multinational States (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022). Alain Gagnon's latest book, The Legitimacy Clash: Challenges to Democracy in Multinational States1, is timely. It covers in depth a challenging terrain that I am confident constitutional experts, federalists, sub-state nationalists, democ- ratization theorists and Indigenous scholars, Indigenous activists, their allies and accomplices will welcome as a helpful contribution to their ongoing multi- logues regarding the past, present and future of co-habitation in deeply diverse societies. Gagnon's book is a gift that invites us to join hands to self-overcome or transvalue gridlock. I use joining hands here, as a language of description that tries to bring to light the dynamic processes through which communities of practice are able to relate democratically and nonviolently with supporters and adversaries.2 I think of The Legitimacy Clash as an exemplary joining hands text that contributes to co-habitation in deeply diverse societies. It is because of this, that I welcome it with gratitude and attempt to reciprocate with this multilogical response. My interest in this book stems from a deep relational interbeingness with place and with people contesting unjust relationships and enacting democrati- zation practices in both Turtle Island and Catalonia; two places which Gagnon carefully studies in this important new text and in which there are many friends that I am confident will receive it with joy. As a Catalan, spending * Pablo Ouziel is an associate fellow at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and a visiting fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. 1 Alain-G Gagnon, The Legitimacy Clash: Challenges to Democracy in Multinational States (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022). For the purpose of this review I am working from a draft version of the forthcoming book generously provided to me by the author. 2 For a more nuanced understanding of joining hands see Pablo Ouziel, Democracy Here and Now: The exemplary case ofSpain (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022) at xvii. 137

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