MINELRES: CfP: JEMIE 2003/3 - Reconceptualizing Autonomy

[MINELRES moderator]

Original sender: Graham Holliday <holliday@ecmi.de>


Call for Papers: Reconceptualizing Autonomy in Post-Communist Europe?

Editors: Graham Holliday & Gwendolyn Sasse
Consulting Editor: Marc Weller
Assistant Editor: William McKinney

ISSN: 1617-5247 

International Editorial Board

Gudmundur Alfredsson :: Marie-Janine Calic :: Richard Caplan 
Fran�ois Grin :: Ted Robert Gurr :: Lauri Hannikainen
Rainer Hofmann :: Donald Horowitz :: Jennifer Jackson Preece
Charles King :: Will Kymlicka :: Joseph Marko :: John McGarry  
Margaret Moore :: Brendan O'Leary :: John Packer ::
Alan Phillips :: Max van der Stoel :: Stefan Troebst

The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) is a
peer-reviewed electronic journal edited under the auspices of the
European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI). JEMIE is a
multi-disciplinary journal, which addresses issues across a broad field
of studies, including ethnopolitical conflict, strategies of conflict
management in divided societies, nationalist movements, minority
mobilization and participation, and minority rights. It is devoted to
the analysis of current developments in minority-majority relations in
the wider Europe, and aims to stimulate wider debate amongst academics,
students and practitioners. As an electronic journal, JEMIE further aims
to promote scholarly debate across as broad an audience as possible, and
make the latest literature available to students who do not have easy
access to an academic library. 

Every quarter, a Special Focus section is published which highlights a
topic of particular interest to students of minority issues and
ethnopolitics. The third issue of 2003 will include a section examining
the variety of autonomy arrangements that currently obtain throughout
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and seek to discover whether
these arrangements constitute the evolution of a distinctly
'post-communist' form of autonomy.

Contributions are invited which examine the various models of autonomy
developing in this region, either in the form of single or comparative
case studies. In this way, papers may wish to address examples of local
self-government arrangements in Hungary or Slovenia, post-conflict and
preventative conflict arrangements such as Kosovo and Vojvodina, the
specifics of Gagauzia (Moldova), the Crimea (Ukraine), forms of
federalism in Russia, and the situation of Ajaria (Georgia). More
specifically, the papers may seek to examine some of the following
questions: 

- What forms of autonomy arrangements presently exist in post-communist
Europe? Can these arrangements be defined simply in territorial or
ethnic terms? Are such arrangements formalized or informal, and how
effective have they been in mitigating conflict?

- How did these arrangements arise? Were they a natural response to
domestic challenges or rather the result of external pressures and the
involvement of outside actors? What has been the impact of the
transition context on autonomy arrangements?

- If regional or intergovernmental organizations have been involved, to
what extent, and with what purpose, have they promoted autonomy
arrangements over other models of accommodation, or advanced some hybrid
mix of conflict-regulating strategies?

- Can novel forms of 'post-communist' autonomy arrangements be
discerned, and how is this shaping the evolution of minority rights
norms and regimes in the wider Europe? 

A provisional deadline for submission is scheduled for 15 August 2003,
with publication in mid-September and over the subsequent quarter. The
Editors would welcome an early expression of interest. Manuscripts of
between 7,000 and 10,000 words will be accepted, and should be forwarded
via email to Graham Holliday and Gwendolyn Sasse. Submissions should
include a preliminary abstract, brief biographical note, and a list of
references. Final decisions on publication are reserved by the Editorial
Board. 


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Graham Holliday
Research Associate
European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)
Schiffbr�cke 12
D- 24939 Flensburg, Germany

Tel:  +49 (0) 461 141 49 51
Fax: +49 (0) 461 141 49 19
Web: www.ecmi.de
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