Non-Territorial Autonomy and Political Community in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
Publisher: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Volume: 29 pages, pdf Description: This article offers a preliminary comparative analysis of debates and practices around NTA in four countries— Hungary, Romania Estonia and Russia—and seeks to link these cases to broader Central and East European-focused debates on state and nation-building, democratisation and participation in public life. By way of conclusion, it makes a case for further research on NTA ‘from the ground up’, focusing more squarely on the everyday practice of autonomy from a minority perspective and how this might inform and deepen understandings of minority agency within current processes of political community building in CEE and—ultimately—beyond.