1st Edition

Contemporary Minority Nationalism

Edited By Michael Watson Copyright 1990

    Minority nationalism is a significant not to say potent force in the modern world. In many countries new problems of and for minority nationalism have recently surfaced. This book presents a wide ranging examination of the state of minority nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s. It considers many different cases in detail: Britain, Ireland, the Soviet Union, Canada, France, Spain and South Africa. It explores the political and socio-economic circumstances surrounding minority nationalism, analyses its successes and failures in recent years, and looks at an exhaustive range of issues: the structures and politics of minority nationalist movements, relations with governments, ideology, attitudes to human rights, and so on. Interestingly, it views both Afrikaners in South Africa and Protestants in Northern Ireland as cases of minority nationalists in dominant positions finding it increasingly difficult to maintain their positions.

    1. Introduction Michael Watson 2. Wales Denis Balsom 3. Scotland Jack Brand 4. Northern Ireland (i) The Nationalists George Boyce (ii) The Unionists Simon Murphy 5. Corsica Peter Savigear 6. The Basques Jean Grugel 7. Quebec Michael Macmillan 8. The Afrikaners John Dreijmanis 9. The USSR Peter Duncan 10. Rights and Minority Nationalism Howard Williams 11. Minority Nationalism and the State: the European State Michael Keating 12. Conclusion: the Seventies, Eighties and Beyond (i)Assessment of the resurgence (ii) Perspectives on the 1980s (iii) The way forward Michael Watson Subject Index Name Index

    Biography

    Michael Watson