Autonomy and Ethnicity
Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States
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Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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This book, first published in 2000, explores how different states negotiate the competing claims of ethnic groups.
One of the most sought after, and resisted, devices for ethnic conflict management is autonomy. This book, first published in 2000, uses selected countries - including China, Canada, South Africa, former Yugoslavia and Australia - to explore the dialectics of ethnicity and territory as mediated by a variety of forms of autonomy.This book, first published in 2000, deals with one of the most urgent problems of contemporary times: the political organisation of multi-ethnic states. Most major conflicts of our time are internal to the state and revolve around the claims of access to or the redesign of the state. Responses to ethnic conflicts have ranged from oppression and ethnic cleansing to accommodations of ethnic claims through affirmative policies, special forms of representation, power sharing, and the integration of minorities. One of the most sought after, and resisted, devices for conflict management is autonomy. Within an overarching framework that examines different understandings of ethnic consciousness and the variety of territorial autonomies, the authors examine the experiences of spatial distribution of power in Canada, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, PNG, Spain, the former Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Sri Lanka and Australia.
ISBN: 9780521786423
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
Weight: 440g
328 pages