Territorial Autonomy in Eastern Europe – Legacies of the Past
Publisher: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Volume: 16 pages, pdf Description: The aim of this paper is not to criticize the normative concept of multiculturalism. Generally, multiculturalism can be understood as the politics of granting political and legal recognition to relevant and distinctive collective minority identities when the liberal paradigm of ‘equal rights for equal citizens’ seems to promote injustice, instead of preventing it. Moreover, all my arguments are presented from within the general framework of multiculturalism, which is, in my opinion, an inherently preferable normative framework for the ethnoculturally heterogeneous societies of Eastern Europe.