1st Edition

Non-Territorial Autonomy and Decentralization Ethno-Cultural Diversity Governance

Edited By Tove H. Malloy, Levente Salat Copyright 2021
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This volume describes and analyzes alternative and emerging models of non-territorial autonomy (NTA), particularly in relation to decentralization. The authors push the NTA debate in new directions by offering a re-conceptualization based on ethno-cultural bottom-up decentralized action that redefines autonomy into its true sense of autonomous action. Through description, critical analysis, and... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: A New Research Agenda for Theorizing Non-Territorial Autonomy?

Tove H. Malloy

Part I: The State and Pluralism: Political Community and Legal Accommodation

Chapter 2: Political Community and Normative Pluralism

Levente Salat

Chapter 3: Legal Pluralism, Autonomy and Ethno-Cultural Diversity Management

Helen Quane

Part II: Network Governance

Chapter 4: Autonomy Initiatives of the Afrikaner Community in South Africa

Deon Geldenhuys

Chapter 5: Democratic Autonomy in the Kurdish Regions of Syria

Cengiz Gunes and Derya Bayır

Chapter 6: Shared Sovereignty in Israel-Palestine: Towards Non-Territorial Autonomy for Israel’s Palestinians

Ephraim Nimni

Chapter 7: The Irish Gaeltacht as a Trans-local Phenomenon

Steve Coleman and Éamon Ó Ciosáin

Part III: Normative Pluralism

Chapter 8: Roma Autonomous Lawmaking – the Romanian Case

Levente Salat and Sergiu Mișcoiu

Chapter 9: Understanding Indigenous Cultural Rights in Indonesia

Mirza Satria Buana

Chapter 10: Faith Education in Britain: A Normatively Pluralist Scenario in the Making

Kyriaki Topidi

Conclusions

Chapter 11: Towards New Paradigms?

Tove H. Malloy and Levente Salat

Biography

Tove H. Malloy is Professor of European Studies at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.

Levente Salat is Professor of Political Science at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.