Intercultural Conflict and Harmony in the Central European Borderlands (eBook)

The Cases of Banat and Transylvania 1849-1939

Mihai I. Spariosu (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
383 Seiten
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8470-0692-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Inhalt

Title Page 4
Copyright 5
Table of Contents 6
Body 10
Acknowledgements 10
Mihai I. Spariosu: Introduction 12
Bibliography 39
Part One. Intercultural Contact: Applied Theories 42
Victor Neumann: Between Orthodox Byzantium and Catholic Europe: Banat and Its Multiple-Coded Cultural Legacies 44
Bibliography 58
Mihai I. Spariosu: Cultural or Intercultural Studies in East-Central Europe? Preliminary Observations 60
Bibliography 79
Vasile Boari: Identity Crisis and the Failure of Multiculturalist Policies in the New Europe 82
Formulating the questions 82
The Judaeo-Christian legacy 84
The Main Elements of European Identity at Present 85
The Challenges of European Identity 86
The Crisis of the European Identity 87
Multiculturalism: Definitions, Typologies, and Brief History 89
Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism 94
The Failure of Multiculturalism as Public Policy in Western Europe 96
Does Multiculturalism Represent a Challenge to New Europe's identity? 98
Multiculturalism and the European Identity 98
Bibliography 101
Daniela Cervinschi: Beyond Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Theories and Policies in Cultural Diversity Management 104
1. Theories of Assimilation 104
2. Acculturation Theory 108
3. Multiculturalism and Post-Multiculturalism 112
Transnationalism and Post-Multiculturalism 116
Transnationalism 116
Post-Multiculturalism 118
4. Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism 119
5. Moldavian Multiculturalism – A Failed Experiment 124
Gagauzian territorial autonomy – a form of multiculturalism 128
Conclusions and Recommendations 131
References 133
Part Two. Intercultural Contact: Case Studies in Banat and Transylvania, 1849–1939 138
Lorand Madly: Neoabsolutism and Liberalism: Nation and Habsburg Politics after 1848 140
References 150
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
Bibliography 161
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
Bibliography 172
Ioan Munteanu: The Evolution of Literacy in the Historical Banat of the Late 19th and early 20th century 176
Bibliography 190
Flavius Ghender: The Concepts of Nation and Ethnicity in the Românul Newspaper (1911–1918) 192
Nation: An Ethnic Community Bonded by Blood and Language 194
Which Is the Motherland of the Romanians of Transylvania, Banat and Cri?ana? 196
Ethnic Groups: Openness and Intolerance 199
Vindictive Discourse vs. Appeal to Common Interest 200
Serbians – A Special Chapter 201
Anti-Semitic Sentiments 202
Ethnic Conflicts: “We Are Not to Blame” 203
The Social Dimension of Interethnic Relations 204
Conclusions 204
Bibliography 205
Corina-Mihaela Beleaua: The Treaty of Trianon and Its Echoes: A Pluriperspectivist Approach 208
I. Why was Transylvania a source of contention? The Historical Context before the Great War – The “Transylvanian Question” 210
II. What Did Other Countries Think about Trianon? Trianon and its (Dis)?contents 213
Austria 213
Hungary 216
Germany 219
Romania 220
France 222
Great Britain 224
United States of America 227
Italy 229
III. How can historiographical discourse affect one's perception of the event and its aftermath? The role of rhetoric in data analysis/ Conclusions 230
Bibliography 235
Lucian Nastas?: The Hungarians of Romania and Minority Politics in the Post-Trianon Era 240
Bibliography 253
Cornel Ungureanu: Cultural Interferences: Plurilingual Writers and Artists in Banat after 1920 256
Ion Stoia-Udrea: An Artist-Outlaw's Adventures 256
Franyo Zoltan: Translating into and from Four “Foreign” Languages 259
Franz Liebhard/Robert Reiter – Names and Pseudonyms 265
Jozsef Meliusz and the Novels of the City 267
Fülöp-Miller – A Transient Figure in Banat and Timi?oara 269
From Psychoanalysis to Astrology: A Few Masters of Survival 272
Bibliography 276
Ionu? Apahideanu: Banat versus Transylvania: Main Differences in the Structural Dimension of Ethno-Religious Conflict, 1867–1939 278
Ethno-Religious Configurations 281
Fragmentation 282
Polarization 282
Ethno-linguistic configuration (based on 1930 census results) 283
Religious Configuration 287
Integrating Ethnic and Religious Fragmentation and Polarization 289
Territoriality 290
Ethnic Territoriality 291
Religious Territoriality 294
The Nature of Social Cleavages 296
Ethno-Linguistic and Religious Cleavages 296
Ethno-Linguistic and Urban-Rural Cleavages 301
Diachronic Overview of Ethno-Linguistic and Urban-Rural Cleavages in the Aggregate BCMT Area 302
1910: Linguistic and Urban-Rural Cleavages 304
1930: Ethnic and Rural-Urban Cleavages 306
The Integrated Diachronic Approach 311
Conclusions 313
Bibliography 316
Part Three. Explorations in Digital Analysis of Interethnic Relations in Banat and Transylvania: Methodology and Case Studies 322
Mihai I. Spariosu: Digital Humanities, Social Sciences and Intercultural Studies: Principles and Methodology 324
Modeling and Simulation in the Human Sciences 326
Methodology 329
Cost and Availability of Software 342
Do Scholars in the Human Sciences Need to Know How to Program? 343
Bibliography 344
Adela Fofiu: Explorations in Data Visualization Techniques for the Preservation of Journalistic Memory (1860–1940) 348
Visualizing space in intercultural contact 349
The Value of Bias-Free Knowledge in Digital Social Research 352
Bibliography 354
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
Co-Citation Mapping 358
Conclusions 366
Bibliography 367
Dan Caragea: Ethnic Minorities and Great Romania: Automatic Textual Analysis of the Societatea de mâine Periodical (1924–1939) 370
TROPES: A specific semantic dictionary 370
Owledge: a semantic analysis of the corpus 372
Bibliography 380
Contributors 382

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2017
• Co-Autor: Victor Neumann, Vasile Boari, Mircea Maran, Lorand Madly, Ion Carja, Flavius Ghender, Corina Beleaua, Lucian Nastasa, Adela Fofiu, Vlad Jecan, Radu Meza, Mihai I. Spariosu, Ioan Munteanu, Daniela Cervinschi, Cornel Ungureanu, Ionut Apahideanu, Dan Caragea
• Zusatzinfo: mit 35 Abbildungen
• Verlagsort: Göttingen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: digital humanities • Europa • Grenzregion • Habsburger • Interkulturalität • Katholische Kirche • Regionalstudien
• ISBN-10: 3-8470-0692-4 / 3847006924
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8470-0692-3 / 9783847006923