Regional Autonomy

Regional autonomy is the term for the decentralization of governance to outlying regions. Recent examples of disputes over autonomy include:

  • The Basque region of Spain
  • The Catalonian region of Spain
  • The disputes over autonomy of provinces in Indonesia.

Current examples of autonomous regions include the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China and the Cherokee Nation in the United States.

Famous quotes containing the word autonomy:

    “I’m tired of earning my own living, paying my own bills, raising my own child. I’m tired of the sound of my own voice crying out in the wilderness, raving on about equality and justice and a new social order.... Self-sufficiency is exhausting. Autonomy is lonely. It’s so hard to be a feminist if you are a woman.”
    —Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 7 (1980)