Understanding multiculturalism
Subtitle: the Habsburg Central European experience
By: edited by Johannes Feichtinger and Gary B. Cohen
Series: Austrian and Habsburg studies -- volume 17
Publisher: Berghahn; Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781782382645; 9781782382652
Subjects: Ethnic relations; History; Multiculturalism; Austrian National characteristics; Central European National characteristics
Description: 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding multiculturalism and the Habsburg Central European experience / Johannes Feichtinger and Gary B. Cohen; title: Heterogeneities and homogeneities : on similarities and diversities / Anil Bhatti; title: Mestizaje and hybrid culture : towards a transnational cultural memory of Europe and the development of cultural theories in Latin America / Michael Rössner; title: The limits of nationalist activism in imperial Austria : creating frontiers in daily life / Pieter M. Judson; title: Multiculturalism, Polish style : glimpses from the interwar period / Patrice M. Dabrowski; title: Multiculturalism against the state : lessons from Istria / Pamela Ballinger; title: Migration in Austria, an overview, 1920s to 2000s / Michael John; title: The slice of desire : intercultural practices versus national loyalties in the peripheral multiethnic society of Central Europe at the beginning of twentieth century / Oto Luthar; title: On "neighbors" and "strangers" : the literary motif of "Central Europe" as lieu de memoire / Andrei Corbea Hoisie; title: Culture as a space of communication / Moritz Csíky.