Meaning of autonomism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A set of anti-authoritarian left-wing political and social movements originating from Italy in the 1960s.
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2. A political doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving political autonomy of a nation or a region.
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Examples

“The village-like clusters making up Jewish Birobidzhan are only passingly described, the geopolitical motivations for the region’s creation are never fleshed out and the influence of the noted historian and ideologue of Jewish autonomism Simon Dubnow is repeatedly mentioned but left undiagnosed.”

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