Power and Legitimization

Tensions between Centre and Periphery

The Struggle for Recognition

The subheading 'The Politics of Periphery' includes, but is not restricted to, the following themes: power and legitimization; tensions between centre and periphery: the struggle for recognition.

Daniele Conversi (University of Lincolnshire) was the keynote speaker in this section of the first Peripheral Identities conference in March 2001. ('Ethno-National Conflicts and Democratic Transitions: Comparing Spain and Former Yugoslavia'.)

Recent Publications:

Frederic Barberà, "Spanish national identities" in Guntram H. Herb and David H. Kaplan, eds.  Primal Loyalties: Nation and Nationalism in Global Perspective.  4 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2008, vol. 2 (out of 4), pp. 702-711. Sample of the chapter available here"