Screen LibraryCultural borders of Europe : narratives, concepts and practices in the present and the past /
"The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as...
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Berghahn Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Making sense of history : studies in historical cultures ;
volume 30 |
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| Summary: |
"The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well as the legal bases for citizenship. Thus, an understanding of such borders and their consequences is of utmost importance for promoting the evolution of democracy. Cultural Borders of Europe provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of regions and historical er |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781789200683 1789200687 9781785335907 1785335901 |
| Index Number: | D2009 |
| CLC: | D750.62 |
| Call Number: | D750.62/C968-2 |
| Contents: | Introduction / Mats Andrén & Ingmar Söhrman -- Part I. The challenges of religious borders -- Territorial and religious identifications in Europe / Linda Berg -- Europe with or without Muslims : creating and maintaining cultural boundaries / Göran Larsson and Riem Spielhaus -- Ilm al-Hududuyya : un-inheriting Eurocentricity / Klas Grinell -- Part II. Linguistic borders in practice -- When the intercultural goes national : textbooks as sites of struggle / Katharina Vajta -- The pluricentric borders of Bavaria / Barbara Loester -- The influence of imagined linguistic performances / Ingmar S |