Ethnic Mobilisation in Flux
Revisiting Peripherality and Minority Discontent in Estonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12564806 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eiki Berg (0000-0002-9845-892X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-26 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Space and Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-2576 • E-ISSN: 1470-1235 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13562570120049636 |
| OpenAlex | W2004334115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 14 |
The massive influx of Russian-speaking eastern Slav groups (Russians, Belorussians, Ukranians) from the rest of the Soviet Union laid a fundamental basis for the nationality conflict and political power struggle in post-Soviet Estonia. After Estonia re-established its statehood, this conflict evolved more into one between indigenous people and immigrants, citizens and non-citizens. What deserves additional attention is the previous economically defined centre-periphery conflict in the Soviet period (the north-east of Estonia versus Leningrad) which is now transforming into a new kind of ethnic and political cleavage separating the Russian-speaking north-eastern towns from the rest of Estonian-speaking Estonia. Moreover, here ethnicity and class mesh, while ethno-cultural differences also contribute to unemployment in the north-eastern towns. The centre-periphery dichotomy in Estonia provides the preconditions for peripheral political mobilisation aiming at a more equal social participation in economic, cultural and political affairs. However, ethnic mobilisation and autonomist attempts have not yet taken the lead
Development economics · Estonian · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Immigration · Indigenous · Nationality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · European Politics and Security · Gender Studies · Law · Soviet and Russian History · Turkey's Politics and Society · Urbanization and City Planning
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| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2022 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |