Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy

ISBN-13: 9783031198557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 194 str.

David J. Smith; Ivan Dodovski; Flavia Ghencea

Opis

This volume assesses Non-Territorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to support the linguistic, cultural, and educational rights of national minority groups across Europe. The fact that 2023 marks the 25^th anniversary of the coming into force of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities (FCNM) and European Charter for Regional and Minority languages (ECRML) makes this book especially timely and relevant. Its numerous detailed empirical studies, one of which uses FCNM reporting as a benchmark, give a picture of the extent (or otherwise) to which international minority rights standards are actually being realized through various NTA arrangements. In keeping with the principles laid out in these foundational documents, the contributions to this volume acknowledge that when it comes to the effective delivery of linguistic, cultural and educational rights, NTA is best regarded not as an alternative but as a complement to territorially based arrangements.This is an open access book.

Spis treści

Introduction

David J. Smith, Ivan Dodovski and Flavia Ghencea

The Role of Law and Non-Territorial Autonomy Arrangements in the Implementation of Linguistic Rights: A Comparative Perspective

Vladimir Đurić and Vasilije Marković

‘Living the Same Full Life’? A Critical Assessment of Non-Territorial Autonomy Practice in the Vojvodina and Sápmi Contexts

David J. Smith

The Dilemma of Responsibility: The Role of Kin-States and Nation-States in Implementing Non-Territorial Autonomy Models to Realise Minorities’ Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights

Martin Klatt

The Evanescence of Autonomy for Minority Groups: The Hungarian Minority in Romania and the Complex Nexus of Dependence

Andreea Udrea

Illiberal Forms of Non-Territorial Autonomy: The Sudeten German Party Case

Oskar Mulej

The Implications of Administrative Decentralisation on the Development of Non-Territorial Autonomy Practices: The Case of Romania

Valentina Cornea, Mirela Paula Costache and Andreea Elena Matic

Linguistic Rights in Greece: Crossing Through Territorial and Non-Territorial Arrangements

Konstantinos Tsitselikis

Critical Analysis of the Linguistic Rights Strategies of the Hungarian National Minority Council in Serbia

Katinka Beretka

Non-Territorial Autonomy and Minority Rights: Impact of the Self-Governing National Communities on Minority Protection in Slovenia

Ljubica Djordjević

Cultural Autonomy, Safe Haven or Window-Dressing? Institutions Maintained by Minority Self-Governments in Hungary

Balázs Dobos

Can Non-Territorial Autonomy Help to Enforce the Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights of the Roma?

Natalija Shikova and Immaculada Colomina Limonero

O autorze

David Smith holds the Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has written extensively on issues of ethnopolitics, minority activism and conflict regulation in Central and Eastern Europe, from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. 

Blurb

This open access book assesses Non-Territorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to support the linguistic, cultural, and educational rights of national minority groups across Europe. The fact that 2023 marks the 25^th anniversary of the coming into force of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities (FCNM) and European Charter for Regional and Minority languages (ECRML) makes this book especially timely and relevant. Its numerous detailed empirical studies, one of which uses FCNM reporting as a benchmark, give a picture of the extent (or otherwise) to which international minority rights standards are actually being realized through various NTA arrangements. In keeping with the principles laid out in these foundational documents, the contributions to this volume acknowledge that when it comes to the effective delivery of linguistic, cultural and educational rights, NTA is best regarded not as an alternative but as a complement to territorially based arrangements.

David Smith holds the Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Ivan Dodovski is Professor in Critical Theory, and Dean of the School of Political Science at University American College Skopje, North Macedonia.

Flavia Ghencea holds the Fundamental Institutions of Administrative Law Chair at the Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences at Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania.