From region to nation and back again: Moravian parties’ rhetoric and politics in the course of time
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | The Annual of Language & Politics and Politics of Identity |
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| Web | http://alppi.vedeckecasopisy.cz/publicFiles/00934.pdf |
| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | Moravian regionalism; framing of minority claims; invention of ethnopolitics |
| Description | The paper deals with the history and political impact of Moravian political representation. The movement that started already during the 1968/1969 period to rise claims of Moravian political autonomy or “home rule” and that was transformed after 1989 into a full-fledged political party to compete for chairs in the Czech diet and Czechoslovak federal parliament presents an interesting example of a failed attempt in regional and later on even ethnic mobilization in the history of recent Czech politics. The paper will focus on the development of the Movement for Autonomous Democracy – Society for Moravia and Silesia and the parties and movements that followed after the disintegration of the movement in mid-1990s. The second aim of the paper is to analyse and evaluate strategies employed by Moravian regionalist parties in order to valorise the issue of regional minority claims. |
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