Der Umfang der österreichischen Geschichte

Stourzh, Gérald

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“…The term “national indifference” refers to phenomena typologically very different (Stourzh 2011, 300–303). However, it also almost never represents an emic category, and when it does, it represents a term of those who were trying to spread a national ideology, never those whom they were trying to mobilize (Zahra 2010, 104).…”

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“…In the first decade of the new millennium, “a new school of historians” developed in the United States (Stourzh 2011, 296). In a number of works, these historians developed the concept of “national indifference” into its own independent interpretational paradigm, which “ranks among the most innovative concepts shaping research on nationalism in the past two decades” (Van Ginderachter and Fox 2019b, 1).…”

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“… 1 In these cases, Kwan notes that it would be more appropriate not to speak about indifference , but rather about “national flexibility and pragmatism” (Kwan 2013, 218, see also Stourzh 2011, 302). Moreover, this application of the concept of national indifference is obviously not suitable for the discussion of groups stricto sensu nationally indifferent, because the core of this concept consists in what these groups lack – national identity. …”

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National Indifference in Post-Ottoman Spaces: A Case from Northwest Bulgaria

Jakoubek

2021

Nationalities Papers

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This study represents an application of the concept of national indifference in the Post-Ottoman Balkans. It addresses the question of why two minority communities in Northwest Bulgaria in the first half of 20th century – the Protestant Voyvodovo community and the Catholic community of Bărdarski Geran, both marked by a strong principle of religious endogamy, intermarried. The author maintains that the main reason why these two communities intermarried was – despite all the differences between them – their national indifference, a parameter that both communities shared. These marriages did not cross the ethno-national boundary (the communities were nationally indifferent and thus ethno-national borders did not divide them). Contrary to standard understandings of the concept of national indifference, the author emphasizes that national indifference can be said to have two sides. On the one hand, nationally indifferent groups represent those in which the “we-they” opposition does not follow national lines, while on the other hand these groups identify and organize themselves on the basis of principles other than national ones. In the example of the inhabitants of Voyvodovo and Bărdarski Geran, this principle was religion. The appreciation of the “positive” side of national indifference enables us to grasp “the native’s point of view,” how people themselves perceived and understood their reality, their identities, and loyalties.

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National Indifference in Post-Ottoman Spaces: A Case from Northwest Bulgaria

Jakoubek

2021

Nationalities Papers

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“…Pieter Judson, Tara Zahra, James Bjork, Jeremy King and others point out that non‐elites often reacted with indifference or ambivalence to rhetoric and actions in favour of nationalism or nation formation (Van Ginderachter & Fox, 2019, p. 2). This kind of ‘indifference’ also has been referred to (often derogatorily) by other names, such as ‘regionalism, cosmopolitanism, Catholicism, socialism, localism, bilingualism, intermarriage, opportunism, immortality, backwardness, stubbornness, and false consciousness, to name a few’ (Zahra, 2010, p. 9; also Stourzh, 2011, p. 300). Most frequently, however, national indifference only has meaning within the nationalist framework and within the rhetoric of either ethnopolitical entrepreneurs or modern‐day historians.…”

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Tangible belonging and national indifference: Being German in interwar Hungary¹

Swanson

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Building on arguments from my book Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth‐Century Hungary, this article examines the sense of ‘being German’ in Hungarian‐German villages in interwar Hungary. The basic argument is that rural dwellers possessed a kind of tangible belonging (a tangible sense of being German, in this case) defined by the immediate world around them and that this tangible belonging was continually in negotiations with other constituencies trying to define Germanness, such as Reich Germans, Hungarian‐German leaders, and the Hungarian state as well as other Hungarians. This article also engages with the concept of national indifference, which has become a very common catchphrase in explanations concerning belonging in East Central Europe, especially in borderland regions and on the margins of states.

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“…15 Parallel to their rising "national consciousness," the educated classes in various regions also began to organize themselves in new scholarly associations: They founded libraries, museums, and archives in order to deal with their own past on an empirical basis. 16 The cultivation of romantic-national ideas soon found expression in the journal Vaterländische Blätter für den österreichischen Kaiserstaat, which was even supported by government circles. It appeared for the first time in 1808 and appealed to "love of the fatherland through knowledge of the fatherland."…”

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Historical Research and Cultural History in Nineteenth-Century Austria: The Archivist Joseph Chmel (1798–1858)

Ottner¹

2014

Austrian Hist Yearbk

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During the nineteenth century, history developed into an independent discipline with important cultural and intellectual functions in both the academic world, as well as in society at large. Specific circumstances contributed to the rise in importance of this discipline: On the one hand, the emergence of an educated bourgeoisie and rising nationalist movements influenced the study of history; whereas on the other hand, public demands for assurances of continuity, as well as conservative efforts for restoration, also played an important role in history's growth in importance. Historicism, which began to establish itself in late-eighteenth-century Germany, had its forerunners in research approaches that grew out of the late Enlightenment. Concepts of cultural science [Kulturwissenschaft] developed by scholars of the late Enlightenment paved the way for the rise of the historical discipline during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Der Umfang der österreichischen Geschichte

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National Indifference in Post-Ottoman Spaces: A Case from Northwest Bulgaria

National Indifference in Post-Ottoman Spaces: A Case from Northwest Bulgaria

Tangible belonging and national indifference: Being German in interwar Hungary¹

Historical Research and Cultural History in Nineteenth-Century Austria: The Archivist Joseph Chmel (1798–1858)

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Historical Research and Cultural History in Nineteenth-Century Austria: The Archivist Joseph Chmel (1798–1858)

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