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Managing Diversity Through Non-Territorial Autonomy

Managing Diversity Through Non-Territorial Autonomy Assessing Advantages, Deficiencies, and Risks

Author: Tove H. Malloy; Alexander Osipov; Balazs Vizi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198738459
Published In: July 2015
Format: Hardback , 336 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Non-territorial autonomy (NTA) is a statecraft tool that is increasingly gaining importance in societies seeking to accommodate demands by ethno-cultural groups for a voice in cultural affairs important to the protection and preservation of their identity, such as language, education, and religion. As states recognize the specific rights of identity minorities in multicultural and multi-ethnic societies, they are faced with a need to improve their diversity management regimes. NTA offers policy-makers a range of options for institutional design adaptable to specific circumstances and historical legacies. It devolves degrees of power through legal frameworks and institutions in specific areas of ethno-cultural life, while maintaining social unity at the core level of society. Throughout Europe and North America, NTA exists and is implemented at a state, regional, and local level. Much has been written about the concept of autonomy and its usage as a statecraft tool in states facing regional division, but little literature addresses its non-territorial institutional and public administration functions. This edited volume seeks to fill this gap.

Managing Diversity through Non-Territorial Autonomy: Assessing Advantages, Deficiencies, and Risks, carves a space for contextual knowledge production on NTA in law, as well as social and political sciences. Contextual knowledge involves a description of institutions and their functionality as well as of the institutional and legal frames protecting these. What are the institutions, bodies, and functions that ethno-cultural groups can draw on when seeking to have a voice over their own affairs, as well as over issues in society related to their identity production? How are these entities incorporated and empowered to have a voice? What degree of voice do they have, and how are they designed to project this voice? Thus, contextual knowledge also involves critical assessment and risk analysis as well as penetrating insights as to the unintended consequences and hidden agendas that may inform NTA policies.

This volume is to provide both policy-makers and ethno-cultural groups with a tool-kit that promotes social cohesion while respecting diversity. This is the first volume in a series of five which will examine the protection and representation of minorities through non-territorial means.

Introduction

PART I: MINORITY SELF-GOVERNANCE
1. Reconfiguring State-Minority Negotiations for Better Outcomes
2. Minority Self-Governments in Hungary
3. National Minority Councils in Croatia
4. National Minority Councils in Serbia
5. Autonomy Arrangements in Slovenia
6. Sami Parliaments in Finland, Norway, and Sweden

PART II: MINORITY SELF-MANAGEMENT
7. Minority Educational Self-Management in Canada
8. The Sorbian People in Germany
9. Functional Non-Territorial Autonomy in Denmark and Germany

PART III: PART III - SYMBOLIC PARTICIPATION
10. Non-Territorial Autonomy in the Post-Soviet Space
11. Russian National Cultural Autonomy in Estonia

Conclusion