Offers a comparative, critical analysis of muticulturalism as a concept for understanding pluricultural societies and offers historical studies of the Central European experience to show how pluricultural situations can be effectively analyzed and interpreted. Critically analyzes the concept of multiculturalism and examines the experience of pluricultural societies in the present and the past. Examines the multinational and pluricultural experience of the region in a critical, analytic way, free of the methodological nationalism that has characterized much of the writing in this field…mehr
Offers a comparative, critical analysis of muticulturalism as a concept for understanding pluricultural societies and offers historical studies of the Central European experience to show how pluricultural situations can be effectively analyzed and interpreted. Critically analyzes the concept of multiculturalism and examines the experience of pluricultural societies in the present and the past. Examines the multinational and pluricultural experience of the region in a critical, analytic way, free of the methodological nationalism that has characterized much of the writing in this field heretofore. Contains a non-western approach to the understanding of multiculturalism.
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).
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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
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
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