Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics
Olga Oleinikova, "Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics "
English | ISBN: 0367279150 | 2019 | 172 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0367279150 | 2019 | 172 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory. Considering democracy and diaspora through a deterritorialised lens, it takes the post-Euromaidan Ukraine as a central case study to show how modern diasporas are actively involved in shaping democracy from a distance, and through their political activity are becoming increasingly democratised themselves. An examination of how power-sharing democracies function beyond the territorial state,
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