Understanding Multiculturalism

The Habsburg Central European experience

Bibliographic Data

ID19909368
EditorsJohannes Feichtinger (0000-0002-3531-6633), Gary B Cohen
Year2014
Pages246
Publication date2014-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueUnderstanding multiculturalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/9781782382645
OpenAlexW4399123788
Open LibraryOL31149354M
ISBN9781782382645
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968, the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is under attack for its relativizing, particularist, and essentializing implications. The essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally coded social spaces can be described and understood historically without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of politically exploited concepts of social spaces

Aesthetics · Cultural diversity · Diversity (politics) · Epistemology · Manifesto · Monarchy · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Cultural and National Identity · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Austria · Austrian National characteristics · Central Europe · Central European National characteristics · Ethnic relations · Europe · History · National characteristics, Austrian

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