Asgp Postgraduate Prize 2001 - Nation, Heimat, Vaterland

The Reinvention of Concepts by the Bavarian CSU

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ID7785311
AuthorsC Sutherland (0000-0002-9609-0949, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume10
Issue3
Pages13-36
Publication date2001-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGerman Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-4008 • E-ISSN: 1743-8993
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/714001160
OpenAlexW1982844547
LanguageDE
Citations received10

The article employs a post-modern theoretical framework to examine the CSU's ideological construction of the concepts of Nation, Heimat and Vaterland. Discourse theory is used to characterise the dynamics underpinning the party's bid for ideological hegemony in Bavaria. Examples of party rhetoric are placed in their historical context, in order to trace the process of political mobilisation through the definition of concepts. The CSU's articulation of the concept of Heimat is equated with a nationalist construct, one which allows the party to pursue a nation-building strategy within Bavaria whilst avoiding the negative connotations of nationalist ideology in Germany

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