Germanness in One Country

Austria, Joerg Haider and Nationalist Legacy

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ID2643170
AuthorsWolfgang Weber (0000-0002-7854-4345), Wolfgang E J Weber (0000-0002-5914-1380, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume5
Issue1
Pages139-147
Publication date2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5153/sro.448
OpenAlexW1975526654
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

This article looks at the possible links between auto/biography and right wing nationalism. It is based on extensive archival and oral history research carried out during the 1990s. The recent shift to the right of Austrian governmental politics is examined by looking at biographical aspects of a key player of that process, the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party Joerg Haider. His current political views should be read as being embedded within the wider historical and political biography of Austria as a nation state. A life story is constructed in exchange with ones own and other people's actions. This construct is constantly in flux. This is true for authors of academic research as much as for their objects of investigation. Consequently, the authors' experiences as an Austrian national, both at home and abroad, form a part of this study. The paper concludes by debating how auto/biographical experiences from the past become a constituting element of a person's present and future

Biography · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Central European national history · Computer Science · German History and Society · Law · Memory, History, Trauma, Identity

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