Ethnic regional autonomies: Variation of the correlation between sub-state boundaries and ethnic groups’ settlements
Abstract
Granting concentrated ethnic group territorial self-rule is considered in the contemporary world as one of the most common way to prevent, manage and resolve ethnic conflicts. Nevertheless, a special feature of territorial autonomies is that the population of autonomous region consists of different ethnic groups. As a result, a functioning of ethnic territorial autonomies is influenced by such feature as a correlation between sub-state boundaries and ethnic groups’ settlements. In the article, the authors present an instrument for measuring of this ethnic autonomies’ feature on the basis of a spatial data of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It includes the indices of ethnic groups’ segregation and concentration as well as some models of boundary congruence. The analysis, which was carried out on the basis of the Ethnic Regional Autonomies Database (ERAD), allows allocating all ethnic regional autonomies between four models of boundary congruence. In conclusion, the possibilities, which a new methodology provides for comparative studies of ethnic autonomies, are discussed, and their prospects are outlined.
About the Authors
Eleonora MinaevaRussian Federation
Petr Panov
Perm state university; Perm federal scientific center Russian academy of sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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