C Karner
Biographic Data
| ID | 12390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Karner |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Karner |
| SIGNATURE | KARNER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7906-0759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A conceptual framework for capturing anti-EU nationalism in post-Brexit Britain
This conceptually focused article advances scholarship on hospitality by developing a novel framework for capturing nationalist inhospitality and growing exclusions that have been widely reported by EU citizens living in post-Brexit Britain. The discussion synthesizes two seminal social theoretical models (i.e. derived from Michael Billig’s Banal Nationalism and Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of crises transforming doxa into discourse, respectively) to…
The (Neo-)Romantic Roots of Austria’s Politics of Pessimism
Contradictory Modernities and Neo-Romanticism Across Central Europe
This introductory chapter provides context to and a framing for this special issue. Building on an interdisciplinary workshop that took place in Poznan, Poland, in early 2023, the articles assembled here examine what we describe as a constitutive ambivalence that has structured Central European experiences of modernity. Bringing together historians, sociologists, art historians and literary scholars, our special issue foregrounds the continuing l…
The Styrian Megaphon: Bridging Representations and Uneasy "Conviviality" in a Regional Counter-Public
This article offers a carefully contextualized, qualitative-thematic analysis of migrants’ biographies published in the Styrian monthly street-magazine Megaphon. The wider contexts to this are two-fold: first, the protracted, pan-European discussions about the past, present and future of multicultural localities and institutions. Second, this analysis unfolds against the backdrop of the much-debated “refugee crisis” of 2015/16 and its impact on A…
“Der Balkan” in der Krone: Austria between “frontier Orientalism” and amnesiac nationalism
This article traces the “silent inscription” of (former) colonial relations in the European integration project to their re-inflection in an EU-sceptical medium. To do so, this contribution draws on a corpus of data comprising news-coverage, commentaries and readers' letters published in Austria's largest newspaper, the Kronen Zeitung, whose reach, influence and leanings are well known. The analysis considers the Krone's representations of, and d…
The Competing Politics of Austrian Glocalization Covid-19, Crime and (Anti-)Racism
Based on a carefully contextualised discussion of discursive and semiotic contributions to public debate in Austria during the politically charged summer of 2020, this article captures ideologically different, at times mutually opposed glocalizing strategies. The social sites and entanglement of “the global” and “the local” examined are the following: a parliamentary address in which neo-nationalist rhetoric is framed by global points of referenc…
Constructions and (attempted) deconstructions of ‘memory nationalism’: Central European lessons
Re-appropriating J.L. Austin’s “speech act theory” for memory studies, this article proposes that “memory acts” describe the work performed by ideologically disparate evocations of different pasts for the purposes of “doing things with cultural memories” in the present. This is used to re-think Avishai Margalit’s distinction between an “ethics-” and a “morality of memory”: through nationalist/ ethnic memory acts the “communities of memory” presup…
The Use and Abuse of Memory: Interpreting World War II in Contemporary European Politics
This chapter presents a brief theoretical outline and contextualization in Austria's postwar history. It reveals several dimensions that structure, or divide, the country's mythscape: top-down and bottom-up historical analogies; invocations—for very different purposes—of World War II by far-right extremists and some on or near the political left respectively; transnational debates with Austrian contributors or audiences. Returning to the prom con…
National stereotypes in the context of the European crisis
In this article we position the contributions to our special issue in relation to existing scholarship on racism and stereotypes. We pay close attention to conceptual strands in the literature that emphasize two cognitive-discursive characteristics of stereotypes: their essentialist reductions and projections and their metonymical qualities. We then extend our conceptual and thematic map further to include recent discussions of the relationships …
Palimpsests of the romantic
This article offers a longue durée perspective to illustrate that just as romanticism was a necessary, though not single-handedly sufficient condition for nationalist movements of the nineteenth century, an understanding of later cultural and political phenomena – including contemporary neo-nationalisms – benefits from an appreciation of the romantics’ continuing, albeit often unacknowledged legacy. Empirically, we make this argument through sele…
Europe and the Nation: Austrian EU-Scepticism and Its Contestation
This discussion of EU-scepticism and its contestation in contemporary Austria is based on a qualitative, discourse analytical reading of the country's diverse media over recent years. Focusing in particular on news coverage and readers' letters pertaining to various (perceived) European crises, the analysis draws on the concepts of topoi (or ‘structures of argument’) and deixis (or ‘rhetorical pointing’) to examine the following four thematic foc…
Conviviality and Conflict: Pluralism, Resilience and Hope in Inner-City Birmingham
This paper examines the lived realities of ethnic pluralism, social marginalisation and activism in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham, UK, which external media representations have tended to depict as lacking ‘community cohesion’ and fostering ‘parallel lives’. Drawing on qualitative interviews with local residents and entrepreneurs conducted over a three-year period, we challenge such representations and a defining characteristic of currently dom…
Hybridity and the Politics of the Everyday in Contemporary Austria 1
This article pursues two inter‐related aims. First, it adds to existing research on contemporary Austrian society and politics by analysing select empirical snapshots of different forms of hybridity from within the realms of the country's ideologically heterogeneous media, recent political debates, cultural production and everyday life. Second, analysis of these empirical materials is used to engage critically with existing theoretical strands in…
The Uses of the Past and European Integration: Austria between Lisbon, Ireland, and Euro 08
This article examines Austrian national identity negotiations through a qualitative analysis of the country's ideologically heterogeneous media, with a focus on Austria's most widely read paper (and its popular readers’ letters pages) between April and August 2008. This turbulent period coincided with widening opposition to the EU's Lisbon reform treaty, Austria's co-hosting of the European football championship, and the collapse of the country's…
Reputational geographies and urban social cohesion
n This article adds to recent literature in migration studies on the importance of place and space by drawing on extended interviews with residents in the Alum Rock area of East Birmingham. Our central theme is the exploration of reputational geographies; the symbolic and material boundaries drawn around places as indicators of social status, sites of memories, and repositories of affect that can have profound socio-economic as well as emotional …
Religion versus Rubbish: Deprivation and Social Capital in Inner-City Birmingham
In the context of current debates about integration and social cohesion, the authors examine religiously underpinned social capital—capable of both bonding and bridging parts of the community—in a deprived part of inner-city Birmingham. On the basis of a series of qualitative interviews with key social actors and a critical engagement with relevant sociological theory, they demonstrate that an understanding of the locality must encompass the foll…
The market and the nation: Austrian (dis)agreements
This article relates contemporary Austria's much-discussed and internally contested identity politics to transnational socio-economic transformations and their far-reaching local/national effects. A qualitative analysis of (wide-ranging contributions to) current debates on the environment, food production, climate change, social inequality and welfare, higher education, art, migration, and unemployment reveals a recurring pre-occupation with expa…
Ethnicity and Everyday Life
Mixing theories of the everyday with a wide range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity. Combining theories of the everyday with empirical case studies, this book examines: the 'dual character' of ethnicity – as a political tool of exclusion and source of meaning/ solidarity respecti…
Austrian Counter-Hegemony: Critiquing Ethnic Exclusion and Globalization
This article examines select discursive contributions to Austrian civil society as counter-hegemonic forms of engagement with (trans)national structures of power and exclusion. Their ideological opposition is shown to unfold around three thematic areas: (1) conceptualizations of (ethnic) identities that subvert discourses of ethnonationalism; (2) initiatives that challenge everyday racism and asylum seekers’ structural marginalization; (3) a recu…
The ‘Habsburg Dilemma’ Today: Competing Discourses of National Identity in Contemporary Austria
This article analyses discourses of Austrian national identity. It discusses the reproduction (and contestation) of national identities on the levels of everyday language, political debate and policy. Three discursive formations of the nation—and their histories—are discussed: a nowadays marginal and de-legitimated discourse of pan-Germanic ethnicism; the hegemonic paradigm of ‘Austrian-ness’, which itself comprises a range of ideological positio…
National Doxa , Crises and Ideological Contestation in Contemporary Austria
Based on a qualitative analysis of relevant news media, this article provides a historically contextualized account of the construction and contestation of Austrian national identities. It argues, in Bourdieu-ian fashion, that successive crises since the mid-1980s have transformed a previously non-reflexive habitus/doxa—the taken-for-granted (though not ideologically homogenous) “cultural universe of the undiscussed”—into a contested “universe of…
Between Structure and Agency: From the langue of Hindutva Identity Construction to the parole of Lived Experience
Theorising Power and Resistance among “Travellers”
This paper (re-)examines the literature on Traveller communities in the United Kingdom by combining parts of Michel Foucault's and Michel de Certeau's theoretical legacies. Following an ethnographic summary, I demonstrate the relevance of Foucault and Certeau for a critical understanding of the Travellers’ structural predicaments and ideological resistance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I argue that Foucault's outline of modern powe…
Theorizing Religion in a Globalizing World
Austro-Pop' since the 1980s: Two Case Studies of Cultural Critique and Counter- hegemonic Resistance
Recent political and social developments in Austria have been widely portrayed in simplistically metonymic terms, with controversial figures such as Waldheim and Haider being perceived to epitomise Austrian society as a whole. In this paper, I analyse the discursive/lyrical content of some of the songs by STS and Austria 3, two of the most successful bands within the genre of Austrian popular music. Approaching these two case studies from the the…
Conviviality and Conflict: Pluralism, Resilience and Hope in Inner-City Birmingham
This paper examines the lived realities of ethnic pluralism, social marginalisation and activism in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham, UK, which external media representations have tended to depict as lacking ‘community cohesion’ and fostering ‘parallel lives’. Drawing on qualitative interviews with local residents and entrepreneurs conducted over a three-year period, we challenge such representations and a defining characteristic of currently dom…
Reputational geographies and urban social cohesion
n This article adds to recent literature in migration studies on the importance of place and space by drawing on extended interviews with residents in the Alum Rock area of East Birmingham. Our central theme is the exploration of reputational geographies; the symbolic and material boundaries drawn around places as indicators of social status, sites of memories, and repositories of affect that can have profound socio-economic as well as emotional …
National Doxa , Crises and Ideological Contestation in Contemporary Austria
Based on a qualitative analysis of relevant news media, this article provides a historically contextualized account of the construction and contestation of Austrian national identities. It argues, in Bourdieu-ian fashion, that successive crises since the mid-1980s have transformed a previously non-reflexive habitus/doxa—the taken-for-granted (though not ideologically homogenous) “cultural universe of the undiscussed”—into a contested “universe of…
Theorizing Religion in a Globalizing World
The ‘Habsburg Dilemma’ Today: Competing Discourses of National Identity in Contemporary Austria
This article analyses discourses of Austrian national identity. It discusses the reproduction (and contestation) of national identities on the levels of everyday language, political debate and policy. Three discursive formations of the nation—and their histories—are discussed: a nowadays marginal and de-legitimated discourse of pan-Germanic ethnicism; the hegemonic paradigm of ‘Austrian-ness’, which itself comprises a range of ideological positio…
National stereotypes in the context of the European crisis
In this article we position the contributions to our special issue in relation to existing scholarship on racism and stereotypes. We pay close attention to conceptual strands in the literature that emphasize two cognitive-discursive characteristics of stereotypes: their essentialist reductions and projections and their metonymical qualities. We then extend our conceptual and thematic map further to include recent discussions of the relationships …
Austrian Counter-Hegemony: Critiquing Ethnic Exclusion and Globalization
This article examines select discursive contributions to Austrian civil society as counter-hegemonic forms of engagement with (trans)national structures of power and exclusion. Their ideological opposition is shown to unfold around three thematic areas: (1) conceptualizations of (ethnic) identities that subvert discourses of ethnonationalism; (2) initiatives that challenge everyday racism and asylum seekers’ structural marginalization; (3) a recu…
Europe and the Nation: Austrian EU-Scepticism and Its Contestation
This discussion of EU-scepticism and its contestation in contemporary Austria is based on a qualitative, discourse analytical reading of the country's diverse media over recent years. Focusing in particular on news coverage and readers' letters pertaining to various (perceived) European crises, the analysis draws on the concepts of topoi (or ‘structures of argument’) and deixis (or ‘rhetorical pointing’) to examine the following four thematic foc…
The market and the nation: Austrian (dis)agreements
This article relates contemporary Austria's much-discussed and internally contested identity politics to transnational socio-economic transformations and their far-reaching local/national effects. A qualitative analysis of (wide-ranging contributions to) current debates on the environment, food production, climate change, social inequality and welfare, higher education, art, migration, and unemployment reveals a recurring pre-occupation with expa…
Theorising Power and Resistance among “Travellers”
This paper (re-)examines the literature on Traveller communities in the United Kingdom by combining parts of Michel Foucault's and Michel de Certeau's theoretical legacies. Following an ethnographic summary, I demonstrate the relevance of Foucault and Certeau for a critical understanding of the Travellers’ structural predicaments and ideological resistance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I argue that Foucault's outline of modern powe…
Austro-Pop' since the 1980s: Two Case Studies of Cultural Critique and Counter- hegemonic Resistance
Recent political and social developments in Austria have been widely portrayed in simplistically metonymic terms, with controversial figures such as Waldheim and Haider being perceived to epitomise Austrian society as a whole. In this paper, I analyse the discursive/lyrical content of some of the songs by STS and Austria 3, two of the most successful bands within the genre of Austrian popular music. Approaching these two case studies from the the…
The Competing Politics of Austrian Glocalization Covid-19, Crime and (Anti-)Racism
Based on a carefully contextualised discussion of discursive and semiotic contributions to public debate in Austria during the politically charged summer of 2020, this article captures ideologically different, at times mutually opposed glocalizing strategies. The social sites and entanglement of “the global” and “the local” examined are the following: a parliamentary address in which neo-nationalist rhetoric is framed by global points of referenc…
The Uses of the Past and European Integration: Austria between Lisbon, Ireland, and Euro 08
This article examines Austrian national identity negotiations through a qualitative analysis of the country's ideologically heterogeneous media, with a focus on Austria's most widely read paper (and its popular readers’ letters pages) between April and August 2008. This turbulent period coincided with widening opposition to the EU's Lisbon reform treaty, Austria's co-hosting of the European football championship, and the collapse of the country's…
Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Austro-Pop' since the 1980s: Two Case Studies of Cultural Critique and Counter- hegemonic Resistance
Recent political and social developments in Austria have been widely portrayed in simplistically metonymic terms, with controversial figures such as Waldheim and Haider being perceived to epitomise Austrian society as a whole. In this paper, I analyse the discursive/lyrical content of some of the songs by STS and Austria 3, two of the most successful bands within the genre of Austrian popular music. Approaching these two case studies from the the…
Between Structure and Agency: From the langue of Hindutva Identity Construction to the parole of Lived Experience
Theorising Power and Resistance among “Travellers”
This paper (re-)examines the literature on Traveller communities in the United Kingdom by combining parts of Michel Foucault's and Michel de Certeau's theoretical legacies. Following an ethnographic summary, I demonstrate the relevance of Foucault and Certeau for a critical understanding of the Travellers’ structural predicaments and ideological resistance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I argue that Foucault's outline of modern powe…
Theorizing Religion in a Globalizing World
The ‘Habsburg Dilemma’ Today: Competing Discourses of National Identity in Contemporary Austria
This article analyses discourses of Austrian national identity. It discusses the reproduction (and contestation) of national identities on the levels of everyday language, political debate and policy. Three discursive formations of the nation—and their histories—are discussed: a nowadays marginal and de-legitimated discourse of pan-Germanic ethnicism; the hegemonic paradigm of ‘Austrian-ness’, which itself comprises a range of ideological positio…
National Doxa , Crises and Ideological Contestation in Contemporary Austria
Based on a qualitative analysis of relevant news media, this article provides a historically contextualized account of the construction and contestation of Austrian national identities. It argues, in Bourdieu-ian fashion, that successive crises since the mid-1980s have transformed a previously non-reflexive habitus/doxa—the taken-for-granted (though not ideologically homogenous) “cultural universe of the undiscussed”—into a contested “universe of…
Ethnicity and Everyday Life
Mixing theories of the everyday with a wide range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity. Combining theories of the everyday with empirical case studies, this book examines: the 'dual character' of ethnicity – as a political tool of exclusion and source of meaning/ solidarity respecti…
Austrian Counter-Hegemony: Critiquing Ethnic Exclusion and Globalization
This article examines select discursive contributions to Austrian civil society as counter-hegemonic forms of engagement with (trans)national structures of power and exclusion. Their ideological opposition is shown to unfold around three thematic areas: (1) conceptualizations of (ethnic) identities that subvert discourses of ethnonationalism; (2) initiatives that challenge everyday racism and asylum seekers’ structural marginalization; (3) a recu…
Religion versus Rubbish: Deprivation and Social Capital in Inner-City Birmingham
In the context of current debates about integration and social cohesion, the authors examine religiously underpinned social capital—capable of both bonding and bridging parts of the community—in a deprived part of inner-city Birmingham. On the basis of a series of qualitative interviews with key social actors and a critical engagement with relevant sociological theory, they demonstrate that an understanding of the locality must encompass the foll…
The market and the nation: Austrian (dis)agreements
This article relates contemporary Austria's much-discussed and internally contested identity politics to transnational socio-economic transformations and their far-reaching local/national effects. A qualitative analysis of (wide-ranging contributions to) current debates on the environment, food production, climate change, social inequality and welfare, higher education, art, migration, and unemployment reveals a recurring pre-occupation with expa…
Hybridity and the Politics of the Everyday in Contemporary Austria 1
This article pursues two inter‐related aims. First, it adds to existing research on contemporary Austrian society and politics by analysing select empirical snapshots of different forms of hybridity from within the realms of the country's ideologically heterogeneous media, recent political debates, cultural production and everyday life. Second, analysis of these empirical materials is used to engage critically with existing theoretical strands in…
The Uses of the Past and European Integration: Austria between Lisbon, Ireland, and Euro 08
This article examines Austrian national identity negotiations through a qualitative analysis of the country's ideologically heterogeneous media, with a focus on Austria's most widely read paper (and its popular readers’ letters pages) between April and August 2008. This turbulent period coincided with widening opposition to the EU's Lisbon reform treaty, Austria's co-hosting of the European football championship, and the collapse of the country's…
Reputational geographies and urban social cohesion
n This article adds to recent literature in migration studies on the importance of place and space by drawing on extended interviews with residents in the Alum Rock area of East Birmingham. Our central theme is the exploration of reputational geographies; the symbolic and material boundaries drawn around places as indicators of social status, sites of memories, and repositories of affect that can have profound socio-economic as well as emotional …
Conviviality and Conflict: Pluralism, Resilience and Hope in Inner-City Birmingham
This paper examines the lived realities of ethnic pluralism, social marginalisation and activism in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham, UK, which external media representations have tended to depict as lacking ‘community cohesion’ and fostering ‘parallel lives’. Drawing on qualitative interviews with local residents and entrepreneurs conducted over a three-year period, we challenge such representations and a defining characteristic of currently dom…
Europe and the Nation: Austrian EU-Scepticism and Its Contestation
This discussion of EU-scepticism and its contestation in contemporary Austria is based on a qualitative, discourse analytical reading of the country's diverse media over recent years. Focusing in particular on news coverage and readers' letters pertaining to various (perceived) European crises, the analysis draws on the concepts of topoi (or ‘structures of argument’) and deixis (or ‘rhetorical pointing’) to examine the following four thematic foc…
Palimpsests of the romantic
This article offers a longue durée perspective to illustrate that just as romanticism was a necessary, though not single-handedly sufficient condition for nationalist movements of the nineteenth century, an understanding of later cultural and political phenomena – including contemporary neo-nationalisms – benefits from an appreciation of the romantics’ continuing, albeit often unacknowledged legacy. Empirically, we make this argument through sele…
The Use and Abuse of Memory: Interpreting World War II in Contemporary European Politics
This chapter presents a brief theoretical outline and contextualization in Austria's postwar history. It reveals several dimensions that structure, or divide, the country's mythscape: top-down and bottom-up historical analogies; invocations—for very different purposes—of World War II by far-right extremists and some on or near the political left respectively; transnational debates with Austrian contributors or audiences. Returning to the prom con…
National stereotypes in the context of the European crisis
In this article we position the contributions to our special issue in relation to existing scholarship on racism and stereotypes. We pay close attention to conceptual strands in the literature that emphasize two cognitive-discursive characteristics of stereotypes: their essentialist reductions and projections and their metonymical qualities. We then extend our conceptual and thematic map further to include recent discussions of the relationships …
“Der Balkan” in der Krone: Austria between “frontier Orientalism” and amnesiac nationalism
This article traces the “silent inscription” of (former) colonial relations in the European integration project to their re-inflection in an EU-sceptical medium. To do so, this contribution draws on a corpus of data comprising news-coverage, commentaries and readers' letters published in Austria's largest newspaper, the Kronen Zeitung, whose reach, influence and leanings are well known. The analysis considers the Krone's representations of, and d…
The Competing Politics of Austrian Glocalization Covid-19, Crime and (Anti-)Racism
Based on a carefully contextualised discussion of discursive and semiotic contributions to public debate in Austria during the politically charged summer of 2020, this article captures ideologically different, at times mutually opposed glocalizing strategies. The social sites and entanglement of “the global” and “the local” examined are the following: a parliamentary address in which neo-nationalist rhetoric is framed by global points of referenc…
Constructions and (attempted) deconstructions of ‘memory nationalism’: Central European lessons
Re-appropriating J.L. Austin’s “speech act theory” for memory studies, this article proposes that “memory acts” describe the work performed by ideologically disparate evocations of different pasts for the purposes of “doing things with cultural memories” in the present. This is used to re-think Avishai Margalit’s distinction between an “ethics-” and a “morality of memory”: through nationalist/ ethnic memory acts the “communities of memory” presup…
The Styrian Megaphon: Bridging Representations and Uneasy "Conviviality" in a Regional Counter-Public
This article offers a carefully contextualized, qualitative-thematic analysis of migrants’ biographies published in the Styrian monthly street-magazine Megaphon. The wider contexts to this are two-fold: first, the protracted, pan-European discussions about the past, present and future of multicultural localities and institutions. Second, this analysis unfolds against the backdrop of the much-debated “refugee crisis” of 2015/16 and its impact on A…
The (Neo-)Romantic Roots of Austria’s Politics of Pessimism
Contradictory Modernities and Neo-Romanticism Across Central Europe
This introductory chapter provides context to and a framing for this special issue. Building on an interdisciplinary workshop that took place in Poznan, Poland, in early 2023, the articles assembled here examine what we describe as a constitutive ambivalence that has structured Central European experiences of modernity. Bringing together historians, sociologists, art historians and literary scholars, our special issue foregrounds the continuing l…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Ideology (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)