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Secessionist movements and ethnic conflict debate-framing and rhetoric in independence campaigns

This book analyses how national independence movements' rhetoric can inflame or dampen ethnic violence. It examines the extent to the power of words matters when a region tries to break away to become a nation state.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huszka, Beata (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2014
Series:Routledge studies in nationalism and ethnicity
Subjects:
Autonomy > Case studies
Self-determination, National > Case studies
Ethnic conflict > Case studies
Rhetoric > Political aspects > Case studies
Rhetoric > Social aspects > Case studies
Slovenia > History > Autonomy and independence movements
Indonesia > History > Autonomy and independence movements
Spain > History > Autonomy and independence movements
Montenegro > History > Autonomy and independence movements
Croatia > History > Autonomy and independence movements
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: how do national loyalties divide?
  • Mobilization for independence in Slovenia
  • Mobilization for independence in Croatia
  • Discursive construction of the Montenegrin independence movement
  • Self-determination movements outside Eastern Europe: Spain and Indonesia
  • Conclusions: different trajectories of nationalist mobilization

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