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Sociology in Times of Glocalization
This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways 'the global' impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.
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Nationalism Revisited
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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Nationalism Revisited
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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National Identity and Europe in Times of Crisis
Europeanness is challenged by the multiple crises and debates happening across the continent. There is long-standing disagreement over Europe's boundaries, and politicians and citizens continually reflect on the EU's past, present and future. This book analyses such reflections and political struggles in a variety of national and local contexts.
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“Ibizagate”: Capturing a Political Field in Flux
The “Ibiza affair,” a succession of scandals triggered by undercover recordings of the FPÖ's former head, Heinz-Christian Strache, in compromising discussions with a purported Russian oligarch's niece has profoundly altered Austria's political landscape and public debates. This article offers a historically contextualized analysis of the multiple voices and competing truth claims articulated by diverse actors in the course of the scandal's fallout. Empirically, this discussion offers a systematic analysis of political and media discourses focused on “Ibiza” between May 2019 and June 2020. Conceptually, the argument builds on Michel Foucault's approach outlined in I, Pierre Rivière and its subsequent applications within nationalism studies. This analysis thus examines data through the questions as to who speaks about the event in question, how they do so, what is being claimed and disputed, and which political strategies and trajectories this enables. The competing, partly shifting positions revealed are the following: Strache's initial regret that soon turned to a self-ascribed “victim-cum-martyr” status; the FPÖ's distancing and eventual rupture from its long-standing Bundesparteiobmann; the Kronen Zeitung's attempted ideological repositioning; the ÖVP's need and opportunity to shift its positions vis-à-vis its political competitors; and critical voices calling for far-reaching structural changes. With the full facts behind the scandal still to be established, the (post-Foucauldian) approach applied here captures the contestations, (new) fault lines, and (shifting) political boundaries constitutive of a discursive field in a crisis context.
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The Styrian Megaphon
This article offers a carefully contextualized, qualitative-thematic analysis of migrants' biographies published in the Styrian monthly street magazine Megaphon. The primary contexts to this material are two fold: the protracted discussions in Europe about the past, present, and future of multicultural localities and institutions and second, the effects of the much-debated refugee crisis of 2015/16 on Austria. Seen in this light, the migrants' Megaphon portraits enrich our understanding of lived, \"convivial multi-culture\" in three ways: They encapsulate a distinctive genre of cultural representation in which biographical accounts are co-produced by a migrant—often an asylum-seeker—and a local writer or the magazine's editor; second, such bridging representations both reflect on and counter nationalist exclusions; and finally, the Megaphon portraits constitute a particular kind of \"subaltern counter-public\" shared by local actors of vastly different life experiences, cultural backgrounds, and structural positions.
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