Autonomy and Ethnicity Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States [Paperback]

This book, first published in 2000, explores how different states negotiate the competing claims of ethnic groups.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 T including China, Canada, South Africa, former Yugoslavia and Australia T to explore the dialectics of ethnicity and territory as mediated by a variety of forms of autonomy.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 T including China, Canada, South Africa, former Yugoslavia and Australia T to explore the dialectics of ethnicity and territory as mediated by a variety of forms of autonomy.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.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: managinglS¨