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- Title: Round Pegs Into Square Holes? Governance and Non-Territorial Identity (Report)
- Author : Nebula
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 323 KB
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Introduction The politics of identity has become rather unfashionable in recent times. In both popular and academic writings the claims of non-national groups for autonomy are often portrayed as a throwback to a pre-modern era. This brief paper challenges this view. Far from being an issue from our history, identity and its constitutional representation remains at the heart of most governance models. The nation-state in particular remains legitimised by reference to a national identity. Rather than supplanting identity politics, the nation-state merely privileges a particular form of territorial identity over all others (Tivey, 1981).