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Political Autonomy and Divided Societies

Imagining Democratic Alternatives in Complex Settings

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Alain-G. Gagnon

    1. Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

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  2. Michael Keating

    1. University of Aberdeen, UK

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Part of the book series: Comparative Territorial Politics (COMPTPOL)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Michael Keating, Alain-G. Gagnon
      Pages 1-10

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Territorial Autonomy: Are They Really Incompatible?

      • Francesco Palermo
      Pages 81-97

    3. Seeking New Autonomies: State Rescaling, Reterritorialization and Minority Identities in Atlantic Canada

      • James Bickerton
      Pages 98-117

    4. Recrafting Sovereignty: Lessons from Small Island Autonomies?

      • Eve Hepburn
      Pages 118-133

    5. Insularity and Autonomy: From a Misleading Equation to a New Typology

      • André Fazi
      Pages 134-154

    6. The Elusive Autonomy of Canada’s Francophone Minority Communities

      • Rémi Léger
      Pages 155-170

    7. Autonomy and Ethnic Diversity: The Case of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China

      • Isabelle Côté
      Pages 171-184

    8. Regions and Territorial Autonomy in Southeastern Europe

      • Dejan Stjepanović
      Pages 185-199

    9. Autonomy and Nationalist Demands in Southeast Asia

      • Jacques Bertrand
      Pages 200-219

    10. Catalan Autonomy-Building Process in Immigration Policy: Conceptual, Institutional and Normative Dimensions

      • Ricard Zapata-Barrero
      Pages 220-235

    11. Conclusions

      • Alain-G. Gagnon, Michael Keating
      Pages 236-240

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 241-272
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An all star cast of academic experts offer an important and timely analysis of the pursuit of autonomy. They argue that it is key to move beyond the primarily normative debate about the rights or wrongs of autonomous regions on the basis of cultural concerns, instead focusing on understanding what makes autonomy function successfully.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

    Alain-G. Gagnon

  • University of Aberdeen, UK

    Michael Keating

About the editors

JACQUES BERTRAND Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada JAMES BICKERTON Professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada ISABELLE CÔTÉ PHD candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada ANDRÉ FAZI Member of the CNRS, attached to the University of Corsica, France EVE HEPBURN Deputy Director of the Academy of Government at the University of Edinburgh, UK and Senior Research Fellow in Politics RÉMI LÉGER Doctoral Candidate in Political Studies at Queen's University, Canada GENEVIÈVE NOOTENS Professor of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada FRANCESCO PALERMO Director, Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism in Bozen-Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. DEJAN STJEPANOVÍC Ph.D researcher at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy MARKKU SUKSI Professor of public law at Âbo Akademi University, Finland RICARD ZAPATA-BARRERO Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Political Science and Social Sciences at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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