Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe

by Judy Batt (Editor), Kataryna Wolczuk (Editor)

Overview

The papers that comprise this collection examine the role of competing European, national, ethnic and regional identities over the introduction of new regional levels of government in the former Soviet and now Central and Eastern European states.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714682259
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/30/2002
Series:	Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Judy Batt, Kataryna Wolczuk

Table of Contents

Chapter 1; Introduction: Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe, Judy Batt; Chapter 2 Hungary:Patterns of Political Conflict over Territorial-Administrative Reform, Brigid Fowler; Chapter 3 Slovakia: An Anthropological Perspective on Regional Reform, Alexandra Bitušíková; Chapter 4 Catching Up with ‘Europe’? Constitutional Debates on the Territorial-Administrative Model in Independent Ukraine, Kataryna Wolczuk; Chapter 5 Narva Region within the Estonian Republic: From Autonomism to Accommodation?, David J.Smith; Chapter 6 Upper Silesia:Rebirth of a Regional Identity in Poland, Luiza Bialasiewicz; Chapter 7 Poland's Eastern Borderlands:Political Transition and the ‘Ethnic Question’, MarzenaKisielowska-Lipman; Chapter 8 Transcarpathia: Peripheral Region at the ‘Centre of Europe’, Judy Batt; Chapter 9 Reinventing Banat, Judy Batt; Chapter 10 Conclusion:Identities, Regions and Europe, Kataryna Wolczuk;

Editorial Reviews

Among the perplexities addressed by the political and regional-studies scholars is that post-socialist peoples are being encouraged to regain a sense of national identity at the same time they are being told that the nation state is being phased out, and being exhorted to rejoin Europe as Europe itself becomes an ever more erratic moving target. Seven of the eight studies were produced by the project based at the University of Birmingham. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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