Original scientific paper

SELF-DETERMINATION AND MULTIETHNIC REGIONALISMS IN POST-YUGOSLAV STATES

Dejan Stjepanović orcid.org/0000-0002-9192-8650 ; School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Abstract

This article deals with the issues of self-determination and multiethnic regionalisms in Dalmatia, Istria and Vojvodina – historic regions of today’s Croatia and Serbia. The main aim is to explain the outcomes of regionalisms since 1990. The article analyses three important elements of regionalist mobilisation – the use of historiography, regional economic specificities and intergroup relations. Particular constellations of self-determination claims based on plurinational and multinational principles in the cases of Istria and Vojvodina respectively are the key theoretical contribution of the article. The article also finds that the lack of success of Dalmatian regionalism is largely due to the inability of regionalist parties to address multiple cleavages on the territory of Dalmatia.

Keywords

Self-Determination; Regionalism; Dalmatia; Istria; Vojvodina

Hrčak ID:

141090

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141090

Publication date:

10.7.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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