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Transforming a Controversial Heritage: The Case of the Fascist Victory Monument in South Tyrol
(2018)Using a Fascist monument in South Tyrol, Northern Italy as a case study, this paper investigates the role of monuments in managing and negotiating interpretations of the past in culturally heterogeneous societies. It ... -
South Tyrol: a Model for All? The Other Face of Minority Accommodation
(2019)South Tyrol, an Italian province with a German-speaking population, a small Ladin community, and a sophisticated system to protect their cultural characteristics, is generally considered a model to deal with national ... -
Bridging borders through institution-building: the EGTC as a facilitator of institutional integration in cross-border regions
(2016)This article examines cross-border integration at the sub-state level in the frame of a European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC). The EGTC is a supranational and directly applicable EU legal instrument that ... -
Societal Security in South Tyrol: A Model to Deal with Ethnic Conflicts
(2016)South Tyrol has been referred to as a model to deal with ethnic diversity and resolving ethnic conflicts. This article explains the South Tyrol model’s success by blending ethnic politics with concepts from security studies: ... -
Special issue on protecting and including ‘new’ and ‘old’ minorities
(2016)Questions concerning the rights of minorities and the preservation of social cohesion in ethnically diverse societies are among the most salient on the political agenda of many States. The growing diversity of national ... -
South Tyrolean Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts from a Security Studies Perspective
(2016)This paper analyses the South Tyrolean power-sharing system using a security studies perspective. South Tyrol is one of the best confirmations of the assumption of power-sharing theories that such type of arrangement ... -
Superdiversity and Sub-national Autonomous Regions: Perspectives from the South Tyrolean Case
(2017)For many sub-national autonomous territories where traditional-historical groups ('old minorities') migration is a stable and increasingly important reality. From the perspective of the autonomous province of Bozen/Bolzano ... -
Integration of New and Old Minorities: Beyond a Janus-faced Perspective
(2017)Diversity and integration issues are undoubtedly amongst the most salient ones on today’s political agenda. Most European states have been searching for models and policies to accommodate diversity claims and integrate ... -
Friends or foes? Migrants and sub-state nationalists in Europe
(2016)How do sub-state nationalists respond to the growing presence of cultural diversity in their ‘homelands’ resulting from migration? Sub-state nationalists in Europe, in ‘nations without states’ such as Catalonia and Scotland, ... -
South Tyrol: the importance of boundaries for immigrant integration
(2016)Using South Tyrol as a case study, this article analyses how boundaries between groups and their institutionalisation through power-sharing arrangements affect the politics of immigrant integration. Through a longitudinal ... -
The Right to Political Participation of Indigenous Peoples: A Holistic Approach
(2017)In the current era of land grabbing and extractivism, political participation of indigenous peoples in their national and local affairs appears to be the crucial right to guarantee the exercise of their other rights. In ... -
Indigenous Peoples in Europe and their International Protection Vis-Á-Vis the Threat of Climate Change
(2017)Indigenous peoples are among the most vulnerable sectors of society in the face of climate change because they generally have a profound and spiritual relationship with the(ir) land. Paradoxically, they are among those who ... -
E. Chile
(2017)In 2016, environmental matters attracted significant attention in Chile. The greatest development was Chile’s ratification of the Paris Agreement; the treaty was signed in September 2016 and finally adopted on 10 February ... -
Stress Test for the Policy-making Capability of Cross-border Spaces? Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino
(2018)This paper focusses on the role of border regions in the governance of refugee flows. By analyzing the political discourse with regard to refugees and asylum seekers in the Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino, the paper ... -
New minorities, old instruments? Diversity governance from the perspective of minority rights
(2016)In international law, minority rights instruments have been traditionally conceived for, and applied to, old minority groups with the exclusion of new minority groups originating from migration. Yet, minority groups, ...
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