Understanding Multiculturalism (eBook, PDF)

The Habsburg Central European Experience
Redaktion: Feichtinger, Johannes

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Produktbeschreibung

Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968, the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is under attack for its relativizing, particularist, and essentializing implications. The essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally coded social spaces can be described and understood historically without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of politically exploited concepts of social spaces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782382652
• Artikelnr.: 40502859

Autorenporträt

Johannes Feichtinger is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and teaches history at the University of Vienna. His publications include Wissenschaft zwischen den Kulturen. Österreichische Hochschullehrer in der Emigration 1933-1945 (2001) and Wissenschaft als reflexives Projekt. Von Bolzano über Freud zu Kelsen: Österreichische Wissenschaftsgeschichte 1848-1938 (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction: Understanding Multiculturalism and the Habsburg Central
European Experience
Johannes Feichtinger and Gary B. Cohen
SECTION I: IDENTITY FORMATION IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES
Chapter 1. Heterogeneities and Homogeneities. On Similarities and
Diversities
Anil Bhatti
Chapter 2. Mestizaje and Hybrid Culture: Towards a Transnational Cultural
Memory of Europe and the Development of Cultural Theories in Latin America
Michael Rössner
Chapter 3. The Limits of Nationalist Activism in Imperial Austria: Creating
Frontiers in Daily Life
Pieter M. Judson
SECTION II: THE DYNAMICS OF MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES, POLITICS, AND THE
STATE
Chapter 4. Multiculturalism, Polish Style: Glimpses from the Interwar
Period
Patrice M. Dabrowski
Chapter 5. Multiculturalism Against the State: Lessons from Istria
Pamela Ballinger
Chapter 6. Migration in Austria, An Overview: 1920s to 2000s
Michael John
SECTION III: IDENTITIES EXPRESSED, NEGOTIATED, AND CHALLENGED IN
MULTICULTURAL SETTINGS
Chapter 7. The Slice of Desire: Intercultural Practices Versus National
Loyalties in the Peripheral Multiethnic Society of Central Europe at the
Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Oto Luthar
Chapter 8. On "Neighbors" and "Strangers": The Literary Motif of "Central
Europe" as Lieu de Mémoire
Andrei Corbea Hoisie
Chapter 9. Culture as a Space of Communication
Moritz Csáky
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index