bicommunalism

English

Etymology

From bicommunal +‎ -ism.

Noun

bicommunalism (plural bicommunalisms)

1. A societal organization the divides a single population into two distinct communities that may have conflicting interests.
   • 1998, Joseph Garcea, Bicommunalism and the Bifurcation of the Immigration System, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 3

     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.

   • 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, 27p:

     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 semblance of bicommunalism.