This volume speaks to the inter-disciplinary issues related to divergence and convergence processes and situations in contact regions, offering fresh and innovative insights from the crucial Central-Eastern European area where conflict and coexistence potentials seem to best represent the “unity in diversity” managing dilemma on the continent.
This volume represents an inter-disciplinary discussion of some fundamental categories of convergence and divergence, focusing in particular on issues of both social integration and devolution related to ethnos as the space of identity, and demos as the space of polity. The aims of the book are to assess past developments within crucial parts of Central Europe where both conflict and coexistence potentials seem to best represent the actual “unity in diversity” managing dilemma in the continent; to provide an analysis of current approaches to minority protection, language planning, spatial and social cross-border and inter-cultural policies; and to develop an evaluation of the future trends and opportunities for co-operation and re-integration within a local and broader operational context.
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PART ONE Majority-Minority Relations, Plurilingualism, and Cross-Border Regionalism |
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Regional Development Policies: Ethno-Cultural Minorities as Actors and Agents of Change? |
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On the Side of Angels: Dignity and Virtue in Minority-Majority Relations |
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National Minorities, Border Communities and Cross-Border Social Cohesion: A Case Study in Central Europe |
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Best Practices and Perspectives of the "Friulian Way to Plurilingualism" in the Light of New European Key Competences |
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Is `Symbolic Ethnicity' the Future of the Slovene Minority in Austria? |
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PART TWO Migrations, Ethnic Changes, and Social Integration |
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Convergence Within Diversity: Integrating the European Diaspora in Australia |
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"It Is Not Too Bad in Slovenia, but It Could Be Much Better:" Inclusion of Asylum Seekers and Refugees at the Borders of Europe |
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Challenging Multicultural Diversity: Changing Trends of Ethnic Groups in Vojvodina after the Disintegration of Yugoslavia |
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Towards a Comprehensive Local Integration Policy: The Example of Slovene Istria |
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PART THREE Narratives, Constructions and Perceptions of Cultural Landscapes |
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The Novel of the Slovenian Canonical Writer Ivan Cankar as a Source of Intercultural Education in Schools on the Slovenian/Italian Border |
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A Foreign Country as a Homeland or a Homeland as a Foreign Country in the Novel Crnoturci {Monte-Turks) of Husein Basic |
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The Symbolism of Religious, National, and Gender Diversity in the Novel The Battle ofMojkovac by Camil Sijaric |
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| Notes On Editors |
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Prof. Dr. Milan Bufon was Director of the Institute and is currently Senior Research Associate at the Science and Research Centre of Koper.
Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy is professor of European Studies at the Europa-Universitat Flensburg. She was Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Colin H. Williams was Research Professor in Sociolinguistics, now an Honorary Professor, in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK.
