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

by Yash Ghai (Editor)

Overview

Responses to ethnic conflicts in recent decades 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. This book uses select 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521786423
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/12/2000
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

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.