Autonomy and ethnicity : negotiating competing claims in multi-ethnic states / edited by Yash Ghai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghai, Yash P., 1938- editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autonomy.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Autonomy & Ethnicity

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

System Details:

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Summary:

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.

Contents:

Ethnicity and autonomy : a framework for analysis / Yash Ghai

Federalism and diversity in Canada / Ronald L. Watts

Federalism and diversity in India / Vasuki Nesiah

Autonomy regimes in China : coping with ethnic and economic diversity / Yash Ghai

How the centre holds : managing claims for regional and ethnic autonomy in a democratic South Africa / Heinz Klug

Autonomous communities and the ethnic settlement in Spain / Daniele Conversi

Ethnicity and federalism in communist Yugoslavia and its successor states / Sinisa Malesevic

Ethnicity and the new constitutional orders of Ethiopia and Eritrea / James C.N. Paul

The politics of federalism and diversity in Sri Lanka / Neelan Tiruchelvam

Cyprus : from corporate autonomy to the search for territorial federalism / Reed Coughlan

Bougainville and the dialectics of ethnicity, autonomy and separation / Yash Ghai and Anthony Regan

The implications of federalism for indigenous Australians / Cheryl Saunders.

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ISBN:

9780511560088

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