Political Autonomy and Divided Societies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Michael Keating, Alain-G. Gagnon

      Pages 1-10

3. Conceptual Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Rethinking Territorial Autonomy

      • Michael Keating

      Pages 13-31

   3. Autonomy, Boundaries and Trust: Preliminary Remarks

      • Geneviève Nootens

      Pages 32-48

   4. Reconciling Autonomy, Community and Empowerment: The Difficult Birth of a Diversity School in the Western World

      • Alain-G. Gagnon

      Pages 49-59

   5. Sub-State Governance through Territorial Autonomy: On the Relationship between Autonomy and Federalism

      • Markku Suksi

      Pages 60-77

4. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Territorial Autonomy: Are They Really Incompatible?

      • Francesco Palermo

      Pages 81-97

   3. Seeking New Autonomies: State Rescaling, Reterritorialization and Minority Identities in Atlantic Canada

      • James Bickerton

      Pages 98-117

   4. Recrafting Sovereignty: Lessons from Small Island Autonomies?

      • Eve Hepburn

      Pages 118-133

   5. Insularity and Autonomy: From a Misleading Equation to a New Typology

      • André Fazi

      Pages 134-154

   6. The Elusive Autonomy of Canada’s Francophone Minority Communities

      • Rémi Léger

      Pages 155-170

   7. Autonomy and Ethnic Diversity: The Case of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China

      • Isabelle Côté

      Pages 171-184

   8. Regions and Territorial Autonomy in Southeastern Europe

      • Dejan Stjepanović

      Pages 185-199

   9. Autonomy and Nationalist Demands in Southeast Asia

      • Jacques Bertrand

      Pages 200-219

   10. Catalan Autonomy-Building Process in Immigration Policy: Conceptual, Institutional and Normative Dimensions

       • Ricard Zapata-Barrero

       Pages 220-235

   11. Conclusions

       • Alain-G. Gagnon, Michael Keating

       Pages 236-240

5. Back Matter

   Pages 241-272

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An all star cast of academic experts offer an important and timely analysis of the pursuit of autonomy. They argue that it is key to move beyond the primarily normative debate about the rights or wrongs of autonomous regions on the basis of cultural concerns, instead focusing on understanding what makes autonomy function successfully.

• federalism
• governance
• immigration
• Institution
• migration
• Policy
• sovereignty
• us politics

• Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

  Alain-G. Gagnon

• University of Aberdeen, UK

  Michael Keating

JACQUES BERTRAND Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada JAMES BICKERTON Professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada ISABELLE CÔTÉ PHD candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada ANDRÉ FAZI Member of the CNRS, attached to the University of Corsica, France EVE HEPBURN Deputy Director of the Academy of Government at the University of Edinburgh, UK and Senior Research Fellow in Politics RÉMI LÉGER Doctoral Candidate in Political Studies at Queen's University, Canada GENEVIÈVE NOOTENS Professor of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada FRANCESCO PALERMO Director, Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism in Bozen-Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. DEJAN STJEPANOVÍC Ph.D researcher at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy MARKKU SUKSI Professor of public law at Âbo Akademi University, Finland RICARD ZAPATA-BARRERO Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Political Science and Social Sciences at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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