History As Performance - Political Movements in Galicia Around 1900

This study analyzes history as performance: as the interaction of actors, plays, stages and enactments. By this, it examines women's politics in Habsburg Galicia around 1900: a Polish woman active in the peasant movement, a Ukrainian feminist, and a Jewish Zionist. It shows how the movements constructed essentialistically regarded collectives, experience as a medially comprehensible form of credibility, and a historically based inevitability of change, and legitimized participation and intervention through social policy and educational practices. Traits shared by the movements included the claim to interpretive sovereignty, the ritualization of participation, and the establishment of truths about past and future.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Finding Roles: The Participants 2. Propagating: The Plays 3. Organizing: The Stages 4. Mobilizing: The EnactmentsConclusion

About the author

Dietlind Hüchtker is Professor for Historical Transregional Studies at Vienna University.

Summary

This study explores identity politics of political movements and its practices as performative performances through women’s politics in Habsburg Galicia around 1900: a Polish woman active in the peasant movement, a Ukrainian feminist, and a Jewish Zionist.

Product details

• Authors: Dietlind Huchtker, Dietlind Hüchtker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367545710
• ISBN: 978-0-367-54571-0
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Spain, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, History: theory and methods, Galicia, Autonomous Community of, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, EDUCATION / Teaching / General