Cultural Borders of Europe : : Narratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past / / ed. by Mats Andrén, Katharina Vajta, Ingmar Söhrman, Thomas Lindkvist.
The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Making Sense of History ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Part I The Challenges of Religious Borders
- 1. Territorial and Religious Identifications in Europe
- 2. Europe with or without Muslims: Creating and Maintaining Cultural Boundaries
- 3. Ilm al-Hududiyya: Un-Inheriting Eurocentricity
- Part II Linguistic Borders in Practice
- 4. When the Intercultural Goes National: Textbooks as Sites of Struggle
- 5. The Pluricentric Borders of Bavaria
- 6. The Influence of Imagined Linguistic Performances
- Part III Mental Spaces and Barriers
- 7. Mental Barriers Replacing Nation-State Borders
- 8. Crossing Borders and Redefining Oneself: The Treacherous Life of Aino Kallas
- 9. Evolving Symbolic Divides in Basque Language Promotion Logos
- Part IV Scholars Making Borders
- 10. The Controversial Concept of European Identity
- 11. The EU as a ‘Large Space’? Carl Schmitt and the Contemporary Dilemmas of Political Rituals and Cultural Borders
- 12. How Prehistory Becomes Crucial for Border Making
- Conclusion
- Index