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
Publication date:
10.7.2015.
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