Understanding Multiculturalism : : The Habsburg Central European Experience / / ed. by Johannes Feichtinger, Gary B. Cohen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Ballinger, Pamela,; Bhatti, Anil,; Cohen, Gary B.,; Corbea-Hoisie, Andrei,; Csáky, Moritz,; Dabrowski, Patrice M.,; Feichtinger, Johannes,; John, Michael,; Judson, Pieter M.,; Luthar, Oto,; Rössner, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Cohen, Gary B.,; Feichtinger, Johannes,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Introduction: Understanding Multiculturalism: The Habsburg Central European Experience -- Section I Identity Formation in Multicultural Societies -- Chapter 1 Heterogeneities and Homogeneities: On Similarities and Diversities -- Chapter 2 Mestizaje and Hybrid Culture: Toward a Transnational Cultural Memory of Europe and the Development of Cultural Theories in Latin America -- Chapter 3 Do Multiple Languages Mean a Multicultural Society? Nationalist “Frontiers” in Rural Austria, 1880–1918 -- Section II The Dynamics of Multicultural Societies, Politics, and the State -- Chapter 4 Multiculturalism, Polish Style: Glimpses from the Interwar Period -- Chapter 5 Multiculturalism against the State: Lessons from Istria -- Chapter 6 Migration in Austria: An Overview of the 1920s to 2000s -- 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 -- Chapter 8 On “Neighbors” and “Strangers” The Literary Motif of “Central Europe” As Lieu de Mémoire -- Chapter 9 Culture as a Space of Communication -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index