Understanding Multiculturalism

The Habsburg Central European Experience
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-344-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 379 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feichtinger, Johannes

Cohen, Gary B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cohen, Gary B.
Gary B. Cohen is Professor of Modern Central European history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he has also served as director of the Center for Austrian Studies (2001-2010) and chair of the Department of History (2010-2013). He is the author of The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (1981; second rev. ed., 2006) and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (1996).

Feichtinger, Johannes
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).

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).