The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countriesvolume 7 Basta Karlo
The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countriesvolume 7 Basta Karlo The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the nation…
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The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countriesvolume 7 Basta Karlo
The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the nation and the state encompassing it. To explain why these countries experience political crises that bring their very existence into question, standard accounts point to conflicts over resources, security, and power. No such naturalization is possible in multinational states.
When minority nations in multinational states press for more self-government, they are not only looking to protect their interests. This book turns the spotlight on institutional symbolism. They are asking to be recognized as political communities in their own right.
Yet satisfying their demands for recognition threatens to provoke a reaction from members of majority nations who see such changes as a symbolic repudiation of their own vision of politics. Secessionist crises flare up when majority backlash reverses symbolic concessions to minority