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CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • De Leonardis Fabio
    Nazionalizzare Kazan’: Architettura e nazionalismo tataro nella capi- tale del Tatarstan (1991-2010)
    in Nazioni e Regioni , n. 7 ,  2016 ,  5-26
    In the end of the 1980s Tatarstan saw the spreading and later the hegemony of a nationalist political discourse centred on the need for a cultural reassertion of the ‘Tatar nation’ and on the claim for more autonomy and sovereignty. The article shows how the republican leadership was successfully in selectively appropriating this discourse in order to give legitimacy to its claim for more autonomy from Moscow and to its new institutions and power system, but also to neutralize radical nationalists. The article focuses in particular on the crucial role played in this context by the reshaping of Kazan’s urban and architectural landscape and on how its subsequent, partial ‘Tatarization’ was the result of a compromise between Tatar nationalist claims and the necessity to avoid a direct confrontation with Moscow and with the republic’s ‘ethnic Russians’. Full text available online download
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