Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries (eBook, PDF)

National and Transnational Identities in Europe and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the impact of social phenomena such as recently created nation states, emerging international confederations, cross-national migration, and contemporary global forces on ethnic and national identities in Europe and beyond. The articles in this volume are written by leading international scholars, based on a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches, and offer a multifaceted discussion of the challenging issue of collective identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Campus Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 355
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783593416823
• Artikelnr.: 37171405

Autorenporträt

Franz Höllinger is Professor at the Department of Sociology at Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria. Markus Hadler is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Content Introduction7 I Determinants and Effects of National Identity19 Postmodern Ethnicity: Diversity and Difference Albert F. Reiterer21 National Pride, Patriotism and Nationalism: Methodological Reflections and Empirical Analyses Franz Höllinger, Jürgen Fleiß and Helmut Kuzmics45 National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigrants in a Comparative Perspective Jorge Vala and Rui Costa-Lopes71 Religion and National Identity in an Enlarging Europe Miroslav Tížik101 A Success Story of Creating National Identity in Tanzania: The Vision of Julius Kambarage Nyerere Bernadette Müller125 Collective Representations of Atrocities and National Identity: The Case of Darfur Joachim J. Savelsberg and Hollie Nyseth149 II From National to Transnational Identity177 The Contingency of Europe's Boundaries Josef Langer179 Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Memory Trace in the Central European Countries Magdalena Piscová and Miloslav Bahna201 Political Unification and the Purported European Society: On the Social Basis of European Integration Stefan Immerfall221 All or Nothing: Identity Bonding to Europe, the Nation, or Neither in a Changing Geopolitical Environment Markus Hadler, Lynn Chin and Kiyoteru Tsutsui237 National and Transnational Identities of Intra-European Migrants Michael Braun and Walter Müller263 "Interethnic Alliances" and National We-Images: An Analysis of Internet Fora Related to Sport and Migration Dieter Reicher289 Institutional Theories of Education in Supra-National Society John W. Meyer and Francisco O. Ramirez311 List of Scientific Publications of Max Haller331 About the Authors351

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Content Introduction7 I Determinants and Effects of National Identity19 Postmodern Ethnicity: Diversity and Difference Albert F. Reiterer21 National Pride, Patriotism and Nationalism: Methodological Reflections and Empirical Analyses Franz Höllinger, Jürgen Fleiß and Helmut Kuzmics45 National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigrants in a Comparative Perspective Jorge Vala and Rui Costa-Lopes71 Religion and National Identity in an Enlarging Europe Miroslav Tízik101 A Success Story of Creating National Identity in Tanzania: The Vision of Julius Kambarage Nyerere Bernadette Müller125 Collective Representations of Atrocities and National Identity: The Case of Darfur Joachim J. Savelsberg and Hollie Nyseth149 II From National to Transnational Identity177 The Contingency of Europe's Boundaries Josef Langer179 Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Memory Trace in the Central European Countries Magdalena Piscová and Miloslav Bahna201 Political Unification and the Purported European Society: On the Social Basis of European Integration Stefan Immerfall221 All or Nothing: Identity Bonding to Europe, the Nation, or Neither in a Changing Geopolitical Environment Markus Hadler, Lynn Chin and Kiyoteru Tsutsui237 National and Transnational Identities of Intra-European Migrants Michael Braun and Walter Müller263 "Interethnic Alliances" and National We-Images: An Analysis of Internet Fora Related to Sport and Migration Dieter Reicher289 Institutional Theories of Education in Supra-National Society John W. Meyer and Francisco O. Ramirez311 List of Scientific Publications of Max Haller331 About the Authors351Content

Introduction7

I Determinants and Effects of National Identity19

Postmodern Ethnicity: Diversity and Difference
Albert F. Reiterer21

National Pride, Patriotism and Nationalism:
Methodological Reflections and Empirical Analyses
Franz Höllinger, Jürgen Fleiß and Helmut Kuzmics45

National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigrants
in a Comparative Perspective
Jorge Vala and Rui Costa-Lopes71

Religion and National Identity in an Enlarging Europe
Miroslav Tízik101
A Success Story of Creating National Identity in Tanzania:
The Vision of Julius Kambarage Nyerere
Bernadette Müller125

Collective Representations of Atrocities and
National Identity: The Case of Darfur
Joachim J. Savelsberg and Hollie Nyseth149

II From National to Transnational Identity177

The Contingency of Europe's Boundaries
Josef Langer179

Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Memory Trace
in the Central European Countries
Magdalena Piscová and Miloslav Bahna201

Political Unification and the Purported European Society:
On the Social Basis of European Integration
Stefan Immerfall221

All or Nothing: Identity Bonding to Europe, the Nation,
or Neither in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
Markus Hadler, Lynn Chin and Kiyoteru Tsutsui237

National and Transnational Identities
of Intra-European Migrants
Michael Braun and Walter Müller263

"Interethnic Alliances" and National We-Images:
An Analysis of Internet Fora Related to Sport and Migration
Dieter Reicher289

Institutional Theories of Education
in Supra-National Society
John W. Meyer and Francisco O. Ramirez311

List of Scientific Publications of Max Haller331

About the Authors351