Subject: Call for ABSTRACTS “Autonomy arrangements in the world” – conference and compendium
Call for ABSTRACTS
“Autonomy arrangements in the world” – conference and compendium
Deadline: February 28, 2012
The Political Science Department of Babes-Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania (http://polito.ubbcluj.ro/polito/en/), in
cooperation with the European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg,
Germany (http://www.ecmi.de/) and the Romanian Institute for Research on
National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (http://www.ispmn.gov.ro/),
invites submission from different disciplinary backgrounds and diverse
methodological orientations, aiming to elaborate a compendium on the
various autonomy arrangements which are operational in the world to
date.
Though the various forms of territorial, functional and legal pluralism
and sub-state governance are important institutional arrangements of
accommodating national, ethnic, linguistic or religious communities
across the world, the issue of autonomy remains highly controversial
both in the scholarly literature, and in the political debate between
dominant majorities and marginalized ethnocultural communities. In spite
of salient contributions made in past years which shed light on the
issue from the perspective of normative political philosophy,
international law, constitutional and institutional analysis and a
number of limited case-studies, no comprehensive collection of cases is
available which could facilitate a more research-based typology,
comparative analysis and informed assessment of the advantages and
shortages of the existing autonomy set-ups. Another limitation of the
existing literature is that most of the available in-depth case-studies
focus on a limited number of well-known, “starred” autonomy
arrangements, located mostly in the Western hemishpere.
The aim of this initiative is to invite scholars and researchers to
engage in identifying, researching and describing in a standard format
as many autonomy arrangements operational in the different regions of
the world as possible, with special focus on the lesser-known cases.
The preliminary results of the endeavor will be discussed in a
conference in Flensburg, Germany (most probably in September or October
2012), and the final version of the elaborated case-studies will be
published in a representative compendium at a prestigious international
publishing house in 2013.
We are interested in any institutionalized, legal or customary
arrangements which come under at least one of the following headings:
shared or negotiated sovereignty
federalism (with relevance to the ethnic, national, linguistic or
religious divisions)
territorial autonomy
cultural autonomy
personal autonomy
functional autonomy
legislative power-sharing
executive power-sharing
devolution
cantonal arrangements (with relevance to the ethnic, national,
linguistic or religious divisions)
tribal, aboriginal or native self-governments
autonomy arrangements resulted from transitional justice
non-democratic or authoritarian autonomy arrangements.
Each submitted abstract will have to address one single case, in a more
detailed abstract format of minimum 1000 and maximum 1500 words. A
biographic note of the author, including his/her institutional
affiliation and some of the most relevant research results should also
be provided.
The received abstracts will be screened, and those found suitable will
be selected for the second phase of the project. If several proposals
referring to the same case will be submitted, the most comprehensive and
innovative approach will be chosen or, in justified case, joint research
efforts will be recommended.
The final, expanded version of the analysis of each case, based on
which the compendium entries will be elaborated, should include:
the history behind the arrangement, with a particular emphasis on the
political context of the creation
ethno-demographic data
the current political context
the legal and institutional frameworks of the arrangement
assessment of advantages and shortages of the set-up
prospects for the future.
The authors of the chosen abstracts will be announced latest by March
26, 2012, and will be invited to elaborate the compendium entry based on
a specified format. The selected authors will also be invited to
consider participation in the conference.
Deadline for the compendium entries: November 30, 2012.
Organizers :
Levente Salat (Babes-Bolyai University)
Tove Malloy (European Center for Minority Issues)
István Horváth (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities)
Contact:
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Levente Salat
Associate Professor
Department of Political Sciences
Faculty of Political, Administration and Communication Sciences
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
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