Spariosu Intercultural Conflict and Harmony in the Central European Borderlands

The Cases of Banat and Transylvania 1849–1939
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0692-3
Verlag: V&R unipress
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E-Book, Englisch, 383 Seiten

This crossdisciplinary collection of essays combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to re-examine the most influential contemporary theories of intercultural relations and their application in various domains including historiography, sociology and cultural studies. A particular focus lies on Central Europe, historical Banat and Transylvania, but also on the current public policies toward ethnic and religious minorities as well as recent immigrants. It argues that much more complex approaches are needed, both historically and conceptually, in exploring intercultural relations. Thus, the political decision-making in East Central European countries and the European Union as a whole could benefit from a well-informed historical perspective by learning from the successes and errors of their predecessors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spariosu, Mihai I.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Neumann, Victor

Boari, Vasile

Maran, Mircea

Madly, Lorand

Carja, Ion

Ghender, Flavius

Beleaua, Corina

Nastasa, Lucian

Fofiu, Adela

Jecan, Vlad

Meza, Radu

Spariosu, Mihai I.

Munteanu, Ioan

Cervinschi, Daniela

Ungureanu, Cornel

Apahideanu, Ionut

Caragea, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Body;10
5;Acknowledgements;10
6;Mihai I. Spariosu: Introduction;12
6.1;Bibliography;39
7;Part One. Intercultural Contact: Applied Theories;42
8;Victor Neumann: Between Orthodox Byzantium and Catholic Europe: Banat and Its Multiple-Coded Cultural Legacies;44
8.1;Bibliography;58
9;Mihai I. Spariosu: Cultural or Intercultural Studies in East-Central Europe? Preliminary Observations;60
9.1;Bibliography;79
10;Vasile Boari: Identity Crisis and the Failure of Multiculturalist Policies in the New Europe;82
10.1;Formulating the questions;82
10.2;The Judaeo-Christian legacy;84
10.3;The Main Elements of European Identity at Present;85
10.4;The Challenges of European Identity;86
10.5;The Crisis of the European Identity;87
10.6;Multiculturalism: Definitions, Typologies, and Brief History;89
10.7;Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism;94
10.8;The Failure of Multiculturalism as Public Policy in Western Europe;96
10.9;Does Multiculturalism Represent a Challenge to New Europe's identity?;98
10.10;Multiculturalism and the European Identity;98
10.11;Bibliography;101
11;Daniela Cervinschi: Beyond Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Theories and Policies in Cultural Diversity Management;104
11.1;1. Theories of Assimilation;104
11.2;2. Acculturation Theory;108
11.3;3. Multiculturalism and Post-Multiculturalism;112
11.3.1;Transnationalism and Post-Multiculturalism;116
11.3.2;Transnationalism;116
11.3.3;Post-Multiculturalism;118
11.4;4. Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism;119
11.5;5. Moldavian Multiculturalism – A Failed Experiment;124
11.5.1;Gagauzian territorial autonomy – a form of multiculturalism;128
11.6;Conclusions and Recommendations;131
11.7;References;133
12;Part Two. Intercultural Contact: Case Studies in Banat and Transylvania, 1849–1939;138
13;Lorand Madly: Neoabsolutism and Liberalism: Nation and Habsburg Politics after 1848;140
13.1;References;150
14;Mircea M?ran: Intellectual Elites and Serbian-Romanian Relations in the Serbian Banat of the Second Half of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century;152
14.1;Bibliography;161
15;Ion Cârja: The Dilemmas of Cohabitation: The Orthodox and the Greek Catholic Communities in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century;164
15.1;Bibliography;172
16;Ioan Munteanu: The Evolution of Literacy in the Historical Banat of the Late 19th and early 20th century;176
16.1;Bibliography;190
17;Flavius Ghender: The Concepts of Nation and Ethnicity in the Românul Newspaper (1911–1918);192
17.1;Nation: An Ethnic Community Bonded by Blood and Language;194
17.2;Which Is the Motherland of the Romanians of Transylvania, Banat and Cri?ana?;196
17.3;Ethnic Groups: Openness and Intolerance;199
17.4;Vindictive Discourse vs. Appeal to Common Interest;200
17.5;Serbians – A Special Chapter;201
17.6;Anti-Semitic Sentiments;202
17.7;Ethnic Conflicts: “We Are Not to Blame”;203
17.8;The Social Dimension of Interethnic Relations;204
17.9;Conclusions;204
17.10;Bibliography;205
18;Corina-Mihaela Beleaua: The Treaty of Trianon and Its Echoes: A Pluriperspectivist Approach;208
18.1;I. Why was Transylvania a source of contention? The Historical Context before the Great War – The “Transylvanian Question”;210
18.2;II. What Did Other Countries Think about Trianon? Trianon and its (Dis)?contents;213
18.2.1;Austria;213
18.2.2;Hungary;216
18.2.3;Germany;219
18.2.4;Romania;220
18.2.5;France;222
18.2.6;Great Britain;224
18.2.7;United States of America;227
18.2.8;Italy;229
18.3;III. How can historiographical discourse affect one's perception of the event and its aftermath? The role of rhetoric in data analysis/ Conclusions;230
18.4;Bibliography;235
19;Lucian Nastas?: The Hungarians of Romania and Minority Politics in the Post-Trianon Era;240
19.1;Bibliography;253
20;Cornel Ungureanu: Cultural Interferences: Plurilingual Writers and Artists in Banat after 1920;256
20.1;Ion Stoia-Udrea: An Artist-Outlaw's Adventures;256
20.2;Franyo Zoltan: Translating into and from Four “Foreign” Languages;259
20.3;Franz Liebhard/Robert Reiter – Names and Pseudonyms;265
20.4;Jozsef Meliusz and the Novels of the City;267
20.5;Fülöp-Miller – A Transient Figure in Banat and Timi?oara;269
20.6;From Psychoanalysis to Astrology: A Few Masters of Survival;272
20.7;Bibliography;276
21;Ionu? Apahideanu: Banat versus Transylvania: Main Differences in the Structural Dimension of Ethno-Religious Conflict, 1867–1939;278
21.1;Ethno-Religious Configurations;281
21.1.1;Fragmentation;282
21.1.2;Polarization;282
21.2;Ethno-linguistic configuration (based on 1930 census results);283
21.3;Religious Configuration;287
21.4;Integrating Ethnic and Religious Fragmentation and Polarization;289
21.5;Territoriality;290
21.5.1;Ethnic Territoriality;291
21.5.2;Religious Territoriality;294
21.6;The Nature of Social Cleavages;296
21.6.1;Ethno-Linguistic and Religious Cleavages;296
21.6.2;Ethno-Linguistic and Urban-Rural Cleavages;301
21.6.3;Diachronic Overview of Ethno-Linguistic and Urban-Rural Cleavages in the Aggregate BCMT Area;302
21.6.4;1910: Linguistic and Urban-Rural Cleavages;304
21.6.5;1930: Ethnic and Rural-Urban Cleavages;306
21.7;The Integrated Diachronic Approach;311
21.8;Conclusions;313
21.9;Bibliography;316
22;Part Three. Explorations in Digital Analysis of Interethnic Relations in Banat and Transylvania: Methodology and Case Studies;322
23;Mihai I. Spariosu: Digital Humanities, Social Sciences and Intercultural Studies: Principles and Methodology;324
23.1;Modeling and Simulation in the Human Sciences;326
23.2;Methodology;329
23.3;Cost and Availability of Software;342
23.4;Do Scholars in the Human Sciences Need to Know How to Program?;343
23.5;Bibliography;344
24;Adela Fofiu: Explorations in Data Visualization Techniques for the Preservation of Journalistic Memory (1860–1940);348
24.1;Visualizing space in intercultural contact;349
24.2;The Value of Bias-Free Knowledge in Digital Social Research;352
24.3;Bibliography;354
25;Vlad Jecan / Radu Meza: Co-Citation Mapping of the Intercultural Dialogue of the Intellectual Communities in Arad and Timi?oara (19th to early 20th centuries);356
25.1;Co-Citation Mapping;358
25.2;Conclusions;366
25.3;Bibliography;367
26;Dan Caragea: Ethnic Minorities and Great Romania: Automatic Textual Analysis of the Societatea de mâine Periodical (1924–1939);370
26.1;TROPES: A specific semantic dictionary;370
26.2;Owledge: a semantic analysis of the corpus;372
26.3;Bibliography;380
27;Contributors;382

Über Autor(innen)

Spariosu, Mihai I.
Mihai I. Spariosu is Distinguished Research Professor and Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA.

Spariosu, Mihai I.
Mihai I. Spariosu is Distinguished Research Professor and Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA.