Springtime of Nations

An irreverent, informative blog about separatism, autonomy, indigenous rights, interethnic conflict, balkanization, and micronationalism—with maps & flags in every article!

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Friday, July 25, 2014

Tazzies in a Tizzy over Missing Island on Commonwealth-Games Speedos, Reviving Independence Talk

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Tasmanians have always been separated from the other Australian states by the waters of Bass Strait, but now a wider gulf has been open...

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Wiradjuri Activists Raise Flag, Proclaim Newest Aboriginal Republic in Australia

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Australia is known as the continent and country with the highest concentration of micronations, those obscure whimsical independence pr...

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Friday, October 4, 2013

Lamb Island, off Australian Coast, to Vote on Becoming Republic of Nguduroodistan

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Australia is home to the wildest profusion of micronations in the world—from one of its oldest, the Principality of Hutt River , in the...

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Chris Roth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; Chris Roth is a social-cultural and linguistic anthropologist with an interest in the symbolic politics of nationalism and ethnicity. He has worked extensively with indigenous groups in northern British Columbia and southeast Alaska and is the author of an ethnography of the Tsimshian Nation.

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