Autonomy and Ethnicity - Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States

Klappentext This book, first published in 2000, explores how different states negotiate the competing claims of ethnic groups. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Autonomy to manage ethnic conflicts Yash Ghai; 2. Federalism and diversity in Canada Ronald Watts; 3. Federalism and diversity in India Vasuki Nesiah; 4. Autonomy regimes in China: coping with ethnic and economic diversity Yash Ghai; 5. How the centre holds: managing claims for regional and ethnic autonomy in a democratic South Africa Heinz Klug; 6. Autonomous communities and the ethnic settlement in Spain Daniele Conversi; 7. Ethnicity and federalism in socialist Yugoslavia and its successor states Sinisa Malesevic; 8. Ethnicity and the new constitutional orders of Ethiopia and Eritrea James Paul; 9. Accommodating self-rule: Sri Lankan dialectics Neelan Tiruchelvam; 10. Cyprus: from consociationalism to federation Reed Coughlan; 11. Bougainville and dialectics of ethnicity, autonomy and separation Yash Ghai and Anthony Regan; 12. Autonomy for Aboriginal peoples Cheryl Saunders.

Product details

• Authors: Yash Ghai
• Assisted by: Chris Arup (Editor), Martin Chanock (Editor), Yash Ghai (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2000
• EAN: 9780521786423
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78642-3
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education