White But Not Quite

Central Europe's Illiberal Revolt
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1359-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Since the ‘migration crisis’ of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its ‘new’ Eastern members – Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against liberal values and policies.

In this startling and original book Ivan Kalmar argues that Central European illiberalism is a misguided response to the devastating effects of global neoliberalism, which arose from the area’s brutal transition to capitalism in the 1990s.

Kalmar argues that dismissive attitudes towards ‘Eastern Europeans’ are a form of racism and explores the close relation between racism towards Central Europeans and racism by Central Europeans: a people white but not quite.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalmar, Ivan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Race, Illiberalism, Central Europe

1. How Eastern Europeans Became Less White

2. How Central Europeans Became Eastern European

3. How Central Europeans Became Central European (Time and Time Again)

4. Central Europe: Half-Truths and Facts

5. The Last of the White Men: Central Europe’s White Innocence

6. ‘Have Eastern Europeans No Shame?’ Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Homophobia in Central Europe

7. Imitators Spurned: Why the West Needs Central Europe to Stay in its Eastern European Place

8. ‘We Will Not Be a Colony!’

9. Slavia Prague v. Glasgow Rangers: Lessons from a Football Match

Conclusion: When the Migrants Come

Postscript: Confessions of a Canadian Central European

Über Autor(innen)

Kalmar, Ivan
Ivan Kalmar is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, at the University of Toronto. He has written widely on race, religion, and politics, including in Central Europe.

Ivan Kalmar is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He has written widely on race, religion, and politics, including in Central Europe.