Suchergebnisse

Human rights and the arts in global Asia : conceptualizing contexts / Lily Cho and Susan J. Henders -- Love the future : Ai Weiwei and art for human rights / Alice Ming Wai Jim -- "September" : seeing religion and rights in Burma / Alicia Turner -- Impacts and legacies of war on human rights : perspectives from Dương Thu Hương's Novel without a name / Van Nguyen-Marshall -- Incendiary material : ethnicity and the Sri Lankan civil conflict in Anil's ghost and Wilting laughter / Arun Nedra Rodrigo -- Literary lament of a death foretold : Tibetan writers on the forced settlement of herders / Françoise Robin -- Reading peasant rights to livelihood in Umar Kayam's Sri Sumarah and Bawuk / Mary M. Young -- The river, the people and the state(s) : Padma nadir majhi as a meditation on ecology and human rights / Afsan Chowdhury -- Abuse and its aftermath : Kim Saryang's Into the light, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue's Red dates / Theodore W. Goossen -- Chasing the monster : the representation of Korean residents in Japan and human rights in Oshima Nagisa's film Death by hanging / Jooyeon Rhee -- Human rights and human wrongs : reading Shama Futehally's Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer's A life in transit / Arun P. Mukherjee -- Intersectionality, hybridity, and the minority rights subject : the Macanese of Macau in literature, film, and law / Susan J. Henders -- Human rights and the poetics of "migritude" : South Asian diasporic spoken word / Sailaja Krishnamurti -- Universal rights and separate universes : local/national identities, global power, and the modeling and representing of human rights in Indonesian performance arts / Michael Bodden -- Confucius institutes, human rights, and global Asia / Lily Cho

Minority special status arrangements figure prominently in efforts to articulate universality with territorialized difference in many parts of the world. Yet much of what has been written about this important modality of the asymmetrical state has focused exclusively on the liberal democratic West. This book extends the analysis. It offers a structured-focused comparison of the experience of the People's Republic of China, France, and Spain. Case studies on central Tibet, Hong Kong, Corsica, and Catalonia are used to identify the conditions that affect the degree to which special status arrangements enhance stability while improving the citizenship of both minority territorial communities and their more vulnerable residents.

Abstract. Since the First World War, grants of territorial autonomy have been a widespread means by which regimes of diverse ideologies and political cultures have attempted to address the demands of regional cultural communities within their borders. Cantonisation, or asymmetrical decentralisation along territorial‐cultural lines, has been a common form of territorial autonomy employed by these states. Yet, despite its importance, little is known about whether and why such cantonisation measures have helped or hindered the search for peace and stability in culturally heterogeneous states. Part of the answer lies in analysing the historical‐political contexts, or historical paths, by which cantonisation arrangements have emerged. Comparative analysis identifies five such paths: international settlements; state‐building; democratisation or transitions from authoritarian rule; democratic maintenance; and decolonisation. Each of these paths poses distinctive problems for the evolution of the cantonisation arrangement.