Secession, history and the social sciences – Bruno Coppieters, Michel Huysseune (editors) Beste Prijs

The contributions to this book analyse processes of secession in terms of the complex relations between political action and scientific knowledge. In secessionist crises, opposing concepts of nation-building clash, as do divergent interpretations of society and history. The book compares the intellectual responses given to the question of secession according to differing national contexts.
The first field of enquiry concerns the relation between scholars and political practitioners. The institutional setting…