Significant otherness nation‐building and identity in postwar Austria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6305353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Tschiggerl (0000-0002-8702-646X, Department of History University of Vienna Vienna Austria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 782-796 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nations and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nana.12677 |
| OpenAlex | W3115941241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 31 |
Nation‐building in Austria in the first half of the 20th century failed several times before it became possible to construct an independent Austrian nation after 1945. This article traces how Austria's handling of the Nazi era involved a demarcation from Germany, which became an identity‐determining alterity for the idea of an independent Austrian nation. For this purpose, a specifically Austrian history was constructed, which focused on the idea that Austria had been the first victim of National Socialism. The supposed certainty of not being German and the myth of being the first victim of National Socialism were two metanarrative constants along which an Austrian identity could be imagined. They are crucial to the success of the Austrian nation built after 1945
Aesthetics · Alterity · Art · Communism · Construct (python library · Epistemology · German · Identity (music · Literature · Metanarrative · Mythology · Narrative · Nation-building · National identity · Nazism · Political science · Socialism · Sociology · Classics · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy
Narrative and History
Metahistory
Austria in World War II
Die Ehemaligen
Nations and Nationalism
Das kulturelle Gedächtnis. Versuch einer Zusammenfassung
Demokratie in Deutschland
The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria
The Ambivalence of Identity
The Discursive Construction of National Identity
On Collective Memory
A companion to cultural memory studies
Das kulturelle Gedächtnis
Victims? Perpetrators? "Punching Bags" of European Historical Memory? The Austrians and Their World War II Legacies
The Ambivalence of Identity
Austria, Germany, and the Cold War. From the Anschluss to the State Treaty, 1938-1955
Nation Building
Imagined communities
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |