Kulturna autonomija nacionalnih manjina: teorijske perspektive i praktični izazovi
CULTURAL AUTONOMY OF NATIONAL MINORITIES: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES

Author(s): Jelena Lončar, Nikola Beljinac
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sociology, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: cultural autonomy; multicultural citizenship; national minorities; national councils of national minorities; belonging
Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the theoretical foundation of the cultural autonomy of national minorities, as well as its practical implications using as an example the work of national councils of national minorities in Serbia. The first part maps the normative assumptions of the concept, proceeding in the second part with a discussion on theoretical dilemmas and practical challenges related to formal-procedural aspects of cultural autonomy and controversies that accompany the election and performance of representative bodies of minority self-governance in Serbia. The third part discusses the way in which minority ethnic identities are constructed and maintained within the framework of cultural autonomy, with special emphasis on the danger of their essentialist understanding. The fourth and concluding sections deal with the (dis)integrative effects of cultural autonomy. The issue of (non)inclusion of national minorities in the wider community is related to the reproduction of the feelings of non-belonging, which has not been eliminated in the regime of multicultural citizenship.

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