Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town / Rogers Brubaker, Liana Grancea, Jon Fox, Margit Feischmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brubaker, Rogers, author.

Feischmidt, Margit, author.

Fox, Jon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Romania--Cluj-Napoca.

Group identity.

Nationalism--Romania--Cluj-Napoca.

Nationalism.

Ethnicity--Romania--Cluj-Napoca.

Ethnicity.

Hungarians--Romania--Cluj-Napoca--Ethnic identity.

Hungarians.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 439 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 fluid terrain on which ethnicity and nationhood are experienced, enacted, and understood in everyday life. In doing so the book addresses fundamental questions about ethnicity: where it is, when it matters, and how it works. Bridging conventional divisions of academic labor, Rogers Brubaker and his collaborators employ perspectives seldom found together: historical and ethnographic, institutional and interactional, political and experiential. Further developing the argument of Brubaker's groundbreaking Ethnicity without Groups, the book demonstrates that it is ultimately in and through everyday experience--as much as in political contestation or cultural articulation--that ethnicity and nationhood are produced and reproduced as basic categories of social and political life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on Names, Transcriptions, and Citations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One: Nationalist Politics, Past and Present

Einleitung

Chapter 1. The National Question in East Central Europe

Chapter 2. Transylvania as an Ethnic Borderland

Chapter 3. From Kolozsvár to Cluj-Napoca

Chapter 4. Cluj after Ceauşescu

Part Two: Everyday Ethnicity

Chapter 5. Portraits

Chapter 6. Preoccupations

Chapter 7. Categories

Chapter 8. Languages

Chapter 9. Institutions

Chapter 10. Mixings

Chapter 11. Migrations

Chapter 12. Politics

Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix A: An Example of the Interactional Emergence of Nationalism

Appendix B: A Note on Data

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-427) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691187792

0691187797

OCLC:

1132229223