Full Description
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.
Contents
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
