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Territorial pluralism is a form of political autonomy designed to
accommodate national, ethnic, or linguistic differences within a
state. It has the potential to provide for the peaceful,
democratic, and just management of difference. But given
traditional concerns about state sovereignty and unity, how
realistic is it to expect that a state will agree to recognize and
empower distinct substate communities? The contributors to this
book answer this question by examining a wide variety of cases,
including those in developing and industrialized states and
democratic and authoritarian regimes. They find that territorial
pluralism remains a legitimate and effective means for managing
difference in multinational states.
The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the
nation and the state encompassing it. No such naturalization is
possible in multinational states. To explain why these countries
experience political crises that bring their very existence into
question, standard accounts point to conflicts over resources,
security, and power. This book turns the spotlight on institutional
symbolism. When minority nations in multinational states press for
more self-government, they are not only looking to protect their
interests. They are asking to be recognized as political
communities in their own right. Yet satisfying their demands for
recognition threatens to provoke a reaction from members of
majority nations who see such changes as a symbolic repudiation of
their own vision of politics. Secessionist crises flare up when
majority backlash reverses symbolic concessions to minority
nations. Through a synoptic historical sweep of Canada, Spain,
Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, The Symbolic State shows us that
institutions may be more important for what they mean than for what
they do. A major contribution to the study of comparative
nationalism and secession, comparative politics, and social theory,
The Symbolic State is particularly timely in an era when the power
of symbols - exemplified by Brexit, the Donald Trump presidency,
and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement - is reshaping
politics.
Territorial pluralism is a form of political autonomy designed to
accommodate national, ethnic, or linguistic differences within a
state. It has the potential to provide for the peaceful,
democratic, and just management of difference. But given
traditional concerns about state sovereignty and unity, how
realistic is it to expect that a state will agree to recognize and
empower distinct substate communities? The contributors to this
book answer this question by examining a wide variety of cases,
including those in developing and industrialized states and
democratic and authoritarian regimes. They find that territorial
pluralism remains a legitimate and effective means for managing
difference in multinational states.
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