Rethinking territorial autonomy
指出领土自治虽能缓解族群冲突,但常导致区域内多数族群集权并推行地方民族建设,忽视内部少数群体。通过亚齐、魁北克和苏格兰案例,探讨区域多数如何对待“次级少数”,并提出重新设计自治方案。
Rethinking territorial autonomy. Regional Studies. Territorial autonomy represents an important tool to manage tensions involving territorially concentrated ethnic minorities. However, we tend to overlook dynamics within autonomous areas, which tend to centralize power with the local ethnic majority and enable localized nation-building. All autonomous regions feature their own minorities, groups that tend to resist autonomous governments. These phenomena are explored in Aceh, Québec and Scotland, showing different ways that regional majorities engage with their ‘second-order’ minorities. This paper suggests a need to rethink territorial autonomy, considering territorial or non-territorial autonomy for minorities, minority legal rights or localized multiculturalism.