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:
“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others—into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one’s future.”
—Gerda Lerner (b. 1920)