Secessionist movements and ethnic conflict : debate-framing and rhetoric in independence campaigns /

Secessionist movements and ethnic conflict : debate-framing and rhetoric in independence campaigns /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Huszka, Beata.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Description:	xi, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in nationalism and ethnicity Routledge studies in nationalism and ethnicity.
Subject:	Autonomy -- Case studies. Self-determination, National -- Case studies. Ethnic conflict -- Case studies. Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Case studies. Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- Case studies. Autonomy. Autonomy and independence movements. Ethnic conflict. Rhetoric -- Political aspects. Rhetoric -- Social aspects. Self-determination, National. Slovenia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. Croatia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. Montenegro -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. Spain -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. Indonesia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. Croatia. Indonesia. Montenegro. Slovenia. Spain. Case studies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9751416

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ISBN:	9780415519243 (hardback) 0415519241 (hardback) 9781315882895 (ebook) 1315882892 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book analyses how national independence movements' rhetoric can inflame or dampen ethnic violence. It examines the extent to the power of words matters when a region tries to break away to become a nation state. Using discourse analysis, this book examines how the process of secession affects internal ethnic relations and analyses how politicians interpret events and present arguments with the intention to mobilize their constituencies for independence. With in-depth case studies on the Slovenian, the Croatian and the Montenegrin independence movements, and by looking at cases from Indonesia and Spain, the author investigates how rhetoric affect internal ethnic relations during secession and how events and debate shape each other. The author demonstrates how in some cases of self-determination elites push for a higher level of sovereignty in the name of economic advancement, whereas in other cases, self-determination movements refer to ethnic identity and human rights issues. Explaining how and why certain discourses dominate some independence movements and not others, Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history, nationalism, ethnic conflict and discourse analysis"--

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Mobilization for Independence in Slovenia
3. Mobilization for independence in Croatia
4. Discursive Construction of the Montenegrin Independence Movement
5. Testing the Model outside Eastern Europe: Spain and Indonesia as Plausibility Probes
6. Conclusions