Blood and Culture - Youth, Right Wing Extremism, National Belonging in Contemporary

Informationen zum Autor Cynthia Miller-Idriss Klappentext Ethnographic study that examines how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across the generations of working-class youth in Germany and how generational gaps in national understanding inadvertently increase the appeal to neo-Nazism Zusammenfassung Immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape! foregrounding questions of national belonging. This book provides an ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across generations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii Introduction: Citizenship and National Belonging as Cultural Practices 1 1. Who Belongs to the Nation? 23 2. Being and Becoming in Germany 46 3. Germany's Forbidden Fruit: National Pride and National Taboos 63 4. Raising the Right Wing: Educators' Struggle to Confront the Radical Right 93 5. Teaching and Un-teaching National Identity 122 6. Blood, Culture, Birthplace 149 7. Generational Change and the Re-Imagining of Nations 169 Appendix A. Overview of the Case Studies 182 Appendix B. Methodological Overview 188 Notes 201 Bibliography 207 Index 229

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Cynthia Miller-Idriss, MILLER IDRISS CYNTHIA, Cynthia Miller-Idriss
• Con la collaborazione di: Julia Adams (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.08.2009
• EAN: 9780822345275
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4527-5
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Politikwissenschaft, Deutschland