bicommunalism

Noun

bicommunalism (plural bicommunalisms)

1. A societal organization the divides a single population into two distinct communities that may have conflicting interests.
   • The pre-1960 era conceptualization of bicommunalism characterized the Canadian polity as consisting of a French-Canadian nation located largely in Quebec, but with a substantial component located in other provinces and territories, and the English-Canadian nation located largely outside Quebec.1998, Joseph Garcea, Bicommunalism and the Bifurcation of the Immigration System, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 3
   • Within this framework, jasmine came to represent a city that before its division had been multicultural, as well as a call for a re-valuing of local identities in the face of the divisive nationalisms of the "motherlands." It was, then, easy enough for the Jasmine Revolution to be translated into a...2008 October, Mete Hatay, Rebecca Bryant, “The Jasmine Scent of Nicosia: Of Returns, Revolutions, and the Longing for Forbidden Pasts”, in Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p423-449...