02109 a2200361 4500 OB-pufr-4314 FrMaCLE 20251214082520.0 cu ||||||m|||| 170531e||||||||xx |||||s|||||||||0|en|d 978-2-86906-473-7 10.4000/books.pufr.4314 doi FR-FrMaCLE eng Harris, Trevor (Re)Mapping the centres Membership and State / Trevor Harris. Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2017. 211 p. Ebook How is it possible to belong to a territory when its boundaries are no longer exclusively physical? How can we define the centre, or allegiance to that centre, at the beginning of the third millennium, if that centre cannot hold? 2In an age when appeals are made both to sovereignty and "the global village", when terms such as "subsidiarity" and "the international community" have become common currency, the notion of membership is irrevocably plural. 3This obviously invites reflection upon the fluctuating relations between central authority and secessionist tendencies in a historical perspective. Today one might consider that the issues of federalism and devolution are not necessarily incompatible. Another case in point would be the tensions between competing conceptions of nationhood experienced in America, between the "melting pot" and a genuinely multicultural society, and between the various linguistic, social, religious and ideological identities. OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554 Political Science Public Admin. & Development Literature (General) nationalisme identité collective marginalité littérature de langue anglaise collective identity English literature nationalism marginalisation Harris, Trevor https://books.openedition.org/pufr/4314 (Re)Mapping the centres Membership and State 28 28