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

Klappentext 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. 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....

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Yash Ghai
• Con la collaborazione di: Chris Arup (Editore), Martin Chanock (Editore), Yash Ghai (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.10.2000
• EAN: 9780521786423
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78642-3
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; China, Sri Lanka, Canada, Spain, Human Rights, Australia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, International Law, India, Republic of South Africa, Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Human rights, civil rights, Ethiopia, Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)