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<em>“This important book further sophisticates the debate about Austrian contemporary history… Karner’s study helps to explain how decisively the Austrian identity has changed.”</em> <strong>• Austrian History Yearbook</strong></p>
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<em>“Building on the constructivist tradition, Christian Karner demonstrates how, when and why the historical mechanisms of social closure take nationalist forms. His analysis is empirically rich and successfully utilizes theoretical insights from multiple disciplines.”</em> <strong>• Siniša Malešević</strong>, University College Dublin</p>
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<em>“This fascinating book takes a refreshingly direct approach to sociological concepts that past studies have too frequently obfuscated. It combines a clear and innovative theorization with persuasive, empirically grounded conclusions.”</em> <strong>• Jan Jakub Surman</strong>, Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities</p>

Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, and on present-day Austria in particular, this book offers a series of highly innovative analyses of the interplay of nationalism’s discursive and institutional facets. Here, Christian Karner develops a distinctive perspective on Austrian nationalism over the longue durée, tracing nationalistic ways of thinking and mobilizing from the late eighteenth century to the present. Through close analyses of key texts representing diverse settings and historical episodes, this book traces the connections, continuities and ruptures that have characterized the varieties of Austrian nationalism.
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This book offers a series of analyses of the interplay of nationalism's discursive and institutional facets. Christian Karner develops a distinctive, longue duree perspective on Austrian nationalism, which traces nationalist politics from the late eighteenth century to today's digital age.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Crystallization of Discursive Structures Chapter 2. National Closure in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond Chapter 3. The Darkest Side of Modernity: World Wars and the Holocaust Chapter 4. From Political and Discursive Reconstruction to Selective Memories and “Banal Nationalism” Chapter 5. Multiple Crises Turning Banal Nationalism(s) “Hot” Chapter 6. “Localizing Strategies” Against Global Flows Chapter 7. Renationalization Gathering Pace Conclusion References Index
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ISBN
9781789204520
Publisert
2019-12-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
308

Forfatter

Biographical note

Christian Karner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln (UK). His research and publications focus on memory politics, urban sociology, and on the negotiations of local, ethnic, religious and national identities in the context of contemporary globalization and its dislocations.