autonomism

Noun

autonomism (uncountable)

1. A set of anti-authoritarian left-wing political and social movements originating from Italy in the 1960s.
   • 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.2016 July 11, Steven J. Zipperstein, “Masha Gessen on a Planned Jewish Homeland in Soviet Russia”, in The New York Times
2. A political doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving political autonomy of a nation or a region.