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Nations and States: On the Map and in the Mind
NATIONS AND STATES: ON THE MAP AND IN THE MIND
15-17 April 2010
New York City
The Role of Memory and History in the Shaping of State Strategies for Managing Minority Nationalism in Post-Communist Europe
Abstract
Among the factors that are said to determine how states deal with minority nationalism, historical legacies are generally and widely assumed to play a key role in both shaping minority demands and state responses to them. These demands and responses are commonly framed in terms of particular institutional arrangements, including power sharing, territorial self-governance, and cultural autonomy and their accompanying institutions. The papers in this panel will examine the relationship between memory and history, on the one hand, and institutional design, on the other, in post-communist Europe, while also considering the relative explanatory power of historical legacies vis-à-vis other factors, such as demography, regime type, degree of Europeanisation, etc.
Chair
Sherrill Stroschein, University College London
Papers
Imagined Legacies of the Past? The design of power-sharing institutions in post-communist Europe
Karl Cordell, University of Pymouth
Stefan Wolff, University of Nottingham
Patterns of Territorial Self-governance in CEE: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Opportunities
Zsuzsa Csergo, Queen’s University, Kingston
Stefan Wolff, University of Nottingham
Institutional Memories and Institutional Legacies: Managing Minority-Majority Relations in Post-communist Europe qua Cultural Autonomy
David Smith, University of Glasgow
The Use of Memory in Building State Strategies for Managing Traditional and New Minorities in Post-communist Romania
Luciana Ghica, University of Bucharest
Discussant
Gwen Sasse, University of Oxford