Local and Global: Mesogovernments and Territorial Identities

"This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies on 2000, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Identity-and-Territorial-Autonomy-in-Plural-Societies/Maiz-William/p/book/9780714680835".In the first section of this chapter a conceptual review of ideas and theoretical assumptions is presented. Ethnoterritoriality, collective identities and the territorial accommodation in plural societies are among the concepts analysed. In the second section, a reflection on the implications of globalization, the extension of market values and the relative loss of power and influence by the nation-state is put forward. The last section of this article focuses on the growing role played by those meso-level communities in Europe which have been able to make the general and the particular compatible. This development seems to be in line with a trend towards what can be labeled as a new cosmopolitan localism.Peer reviewe