UID:
almahu_9949384063702882
Format:
1 online resource (621 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781351654524
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1351654527
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9781351654517
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1351654519
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9781351654500
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1351654500
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9781315157733
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131515773X
Series Statement:
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Content:
Central Europe is a vague and ambiguous term, more to do with outlook and a state of mind than with a firmly defined geographical region. In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Central Europeansconsideredthemselvesto beculturally part of the West, which had been politically handicapped by the Eastern Soviet bloc. More recently, and with European Union membership, Central Europeans are increasingly thinking of themselves as politically part of the West, but culturally part of the East. This book, with contributions from a large number of scholars from the region, explores the concept of Central Europe and a number of other political concepts from an openly Central European perspective. It considers a wide range of issues including politics, nationalism, democracy, and the impact of culture, art and history. Overall, the book casts a great deal of light on the complex nature of Central Europe.
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Making sense of Central Europe: political concepts of the region -- Part I Positioning Central Europe -- 1 Positioning in global hierarchies: the case of Central Europe -- 2 Centers of Europe -- 3 Creating Central Europe in Polish and Czech Samizdat -- 4 Transition/transformation, state capture or varieties of capitalism? -- 5 Europeanization -- Part II Orientalism -- 6 Which way east? A conceptual misunderstanding -- 7 Problem of "Western" approach to the "East": a need for more careful listening and better understanding -- 8 Poland and the East -- 9 The East in the Czech perspective -- 10 On "East", "Central" and "Eastern" Europe: Belarus and Central European politics of identity -- Part III Geopolitics -- 11 Regional geopolitics perspective of contemporary Poland: same or different as other V4 countries? -- 12 Geopolitics in Polish national strategies -- 13 Towards a sustainable Visegrad: some reflections on the future role of Central Europe in the EU -- 14 Popular geopolitics: understanding the Central European space in the Czech Republic -- 15 Regional geopolitics: the case of Hungary -- Part IV Nationalism -- 16 Nation: Central European context -- 17 The normative isomorphism of language, nation and state -- 18 Nation and region in Central Europe -- 19 My hero, your enemy: competing national memory cultures and symbolic politics in Central Europe -- 20 The concept of "nation" in Polish educational books -- 21 Europe-but-not-Europe? National identity in contemporary Slovak politics -- 22 Narratives of trauma and suffering in Slovak-Hungarian relations -- 23 Nationalism in historical constructs of the nation in Hungary -- 24 Nationalism as civil religion: the case of Hungary -- 25 Czech Republic: dream to be nationalistic.
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26 Historical consciousness: Czech and Slovak examples -- Part V Federalism -- 27 No federation without separation: István Bibó about the prerequisites of regional and European integration -- 28 The ghost of Judeopolonia or the never-existing Eastern European confederation -- 29 Feliks Koneczny's theory of civilizations -- Part VI Liberalism -- 30 Liberalism in the Czech lands: between nationalism and party marginality -- 31 A fall of liberalism foretold? Liberal politics in Hungary at the turn of two centuries -- 32 Liberalism in Poland: past experiences -- present challenges -- 33 Liberalism and its tradition in Slovakia -- Part VII Civil society -- 34 The rise and fall of civil society in East-Central Europe -- 35 Individualized vs. organized civic engagement in CEE countries -- 36 Contention and the civil society -- 37 Civil society as a jargon: Central European experience of civic activity after 1989 -- Part VIII Participatory democracy -- 38 Participatory democracy in Hungary: out of practice due to lack of interest -- 39 Understanding and political use of participation in Polish urban politics -- 40 The opportunities and threats for multilevel governance in Central Europe -- 41 Too many actors reshape the plot: why the rise of participatory democracy undermines the old ideological framework -- 42 Environmentalism and civil activism in Hungary -- Part IX Information society -- 43 Startup ecosystem in the Visegrad Group and its main challenges -- 44 Impact of ITC on the information society in the Visegrad Group states -- Part X Lustration -- 45 Lustration: Ukrainian case -- 46 Lustration in Poland -- 47 Lustration in Slovakia -- 48 Lustration in Czech Politics -- Part XI Power -- 49 The Kundera paradox: dying for Ukraine and EUrope? What the Ukraine crisis can tell us about European power -- 50 Polish power: potentia and its limits.
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51 Power and the liberal conscience: context of Central Eastern Europe -- 52 The power of the Visegrad cooperation -- Part XII Solidarity -- 53 European solidarity from the Central European perspective -- 54 "Round table" talks as a conflict resolution tool: the Central and Eastern European experience -- 55 Between anti-politics and post-politics: a history of the idea of solidarity -- 56 Solidarity by decree: a view from Hungary -- Part XIII Politics of health -- 57 Sterilization in the name of public health -- 58 Eugenics in the Polish context: from racial hygiene to new genetics -- 59 From eugenics and "race protection" to preventive medicine and family planning in Hungary -- 60 The matrix of the physician-patient relationship within the context of medical ethics in Slovakia -- Part XIV Cities -- 61 Urban solemnity and warped public space in Poland -- 62 The city as an actor, arena and topic of political conflicts in contemporary Poland -- 63 Five tales of a city: dysfunction and potential in a Central European capital -- 64 Civic initiatives and city culture, a case study: Szeged -- Part XV Languages of art -- 65 Languages of art in Central Europe: participation, recognition, identity -- 66 An isolated archipelago or simply one of many islands? -- 67 Visualizing, mocking and enacting: vocabularies of Eastern European artistic activism -- 68 Roma contemporary art -- the language of European de-coloniality -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Moskalewicz, Marcin Understanding Central Europe Milton : Routledge,c2017 ISBN 9780415791595
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315157733
