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Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town
Rogers Brubaker
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Description for Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town
Paperback. Examines the polarized fields of nationalist politics - in Cluj, Transylvania, and the wider region - and also the more fluid terrain on which ethnicity and nationhood are experienced, enacted, and understood in everyday life. This book addresses fundamental questions about ethnicity: where it is, when it matters, and how it works. Num Pages: 504 pages, 16 color plates. 20 halftones. 16 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; JHMP; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 724.
Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been particularly intense in Cluj, Transylvania's cultural and political center. Yet heated nationalist rhetoric has evoked only muted popular response. The citizens of Cluj--the Romanian-speaking majority and the Hungarian-speaking minority--have been largely indifferent to the nationalist claims made in their names. Based on seven years of field research, this book examines not only the sharply polarized fields of nationalist politics--in Cluj, Transylvania, and the wider region--but also the more ... Read more
Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been particularly intense in Cluj, Transylvania's cultural and political center. Yet heated nationalist rhetoric has evoked only muted popular response. The citizens of Cluj--the Romanian-speaking majority and the Hungarian-speaking minority--have been largely indifferent to the nationalist claims made in their names. Based on seven years of field research, this book examines not only the sharply polarized fields of nationalist politics--in Cluj, Transylvania, and the wider region--but also the more ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691136226
SKU
V9780691136226
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About Rogers Brubaker
Rogers Brubaker is professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Margit Feischmidt is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Pecs, Hungary and a senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of Ethnic and National Minorities in Budapest. Jon Fox is lecturer in sociology at the University of Bristol. Liana Grancea is a Ph.D. candidate ... Read more
Reviews for Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 "By drilling deep into the mundane conversations, cares, and relationships among citizens of Cluj-Napoca...[the authors] set out to examine precisely how ethnicity matters...[An] important and conceptually innovative book."
Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs "Provides a reality check for those who continue to operate under the myths of the past, while offering valuable insights into ... Read more
Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs "Provides a reality check for those who continue to operate under the myths of the past, while offering valuable insights into ... Read more