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The bounded field
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ISBN: 1571814639 9781785339141 1785339141 9781571814630 1785339133 Year: 2003 Volume: v. 18 Publisher: New York Berghahn Books

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"Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino region of northern Italy, the author investigates how ideas about village boundaries and private property form the background against which regionalist ideologies are understood. In suggesting that ideas about regionalism largely reflect views about private property, he provides an alternative to theories of nationalism that overlook the articulation between official ideologies and discourses at the local level."--Jacket.


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Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions
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ISBN: 029931653X 9780299316532 9780299316501 0299316505 Year: 2018 Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin

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German scholars were early pioneers in folklore and historical linguistics. As the Nazis rose to power, however, these disciplines were distorted into racist pseudoscience. Under the direction of Heinrich Himmler's SS-Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Inheritance), folklore became a tool for constructing a unified German realm and a manufactured lineage from ancient and "pure" Germanic and Nordic blood.Drawing on extensive research in public and private archives and interviews with family members of fieldworkers, James R. Dow uncovers both details of the SS cultural commissions' work and the continuing vestiges of the materials they assembled. Teams of poorly qualified and ideologically motivated collectors were sent to South Tyrol in Italy and Gottschee in Slovenian Yugoslavia, from which ethnically German communities were to be resettled in the German Reich. Although a mass of information on narratives, songs and dances, beliefs, customs, local clothing and architecture, and folk speech was collected, the research was deeply tainted and skewed by racialist and nationalist preconditions. Dow sharply critiques the continued use of these ersatz archives.


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Quaderni veneti.
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ISSN: 1724188X Year: 1985 Publisher: Ravenna : Longo,


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Migration and autonomous territories : the case of South Tyrol and Catalonia
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ISBN: 9004282793 9004282785 1322984808 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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Migration is an increasingly important reality for sub-national autonomous territories characterized by large historical communities or minorities. The diverse claims of these groups, on the one hand, and of new communities arising from migration, on the other, bring complexity to the management of migration issue in the territories. Migration and Autonomous Territories , edited by Roberta Medda-Windischer and Andrea Carlà, draws on the fields of migration and minority studies, to analyze the challenges associated with the need to reconcile diversity and unity in autonomous territories. The volume compares the cases of South Tyrol and Catalonia, characterized both by the presence of large historical communities and minorities, and significant migration aims, and sheds new light on how sub-national units deal with migration.


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Ideational legacies and the politics of migration in European minority regions
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ISBN: 0191939617 0192662929 0192662937 0192847201 9780192847201 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press,

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"This book develops a theory of ideational policy stabilization to explain stable policy choices despite changing incentives. Historical legacies are frequently invoked in popular and academic accounts of the politics of migration, but the mechanisms of transmission are left underspecified. The book therefore contributes to this literature by arguing that the missing link between past events and present choices is ideational: Originally, an historical constellation of interests leads actors to defend policy ideas that match the historical environment. But over time, ideas can detach themselves from interests and stabilize into societal dispositions (shared values and identities). This occurs if elites build a discursive consensus around a policy idea, and if bureaucrats develop concomitant policy practices. The book's empirical section analyzes ideational stabilization in Catalonia (Spain), which takes an inclusive approach to immigration, and in South Tyrol (Italy), where immigration is framed as a threat. The comparison shows that these differences can be explained by the political economy of historical industrialization and internal migration. Catalans were in the driver's seat of industrialization, receiving unskilled migrant workers from the rest of Spain to boost their own economy. South Tyroleans, on the other hand, were in the passenger's seat, perceiving incoming Italians as colonizers. Over time, socioeconomic conditions changed, and internal migration was replaced with international migration. Yet with historical ideas having stabilized into dispositions, political and administrative elites continued to understand immigration within the framework of a long-gone situation-one of economic opportunity in Catalonia and ethnic competition in South Tyrol"--

Südtirol : Begegnungen nördlicher und südlicher Kunsttradition in der Landschaft zwischen Brenner und Salurner Klause
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ISBN: 3770111885 Year: 1981 Publisher: Köln : DuMont,


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The South Tyrol question, 1866-2010 : from national rage to regional state
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ISBN: 1299420133 3035303037 3039113364 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang,

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South Tyrol is a small, mountainous area located in the central Alps. Despite its modest geographical size, it has come to represent a success story in the protection of ethnic minorities in Europe. When Austrian South Tyrol was given to Italy in 1919, about 200,000 German and Ladin speakers became Italian citizens overnight. Despite Italy’s attempts to Italianize the South Tyroleans, especially during the Fascist era from 1922 to 1943, they sought to maintain their traditions and language, culminating in violence in the 1960s. In 1972 South Tyrol finally gained geographical and cultural autonomy from Italy, leading to the ‘regional state’ of 2010. This book, drawing on the latest research in Italian and German, provides a fresh analysis of this dynamic and turbulent period of South Tyrolean and European history. The author provides new insights into the political and cultural evolution of the understanding of the region and the definition of its role within the European framework. In a broader sense, the study also analyses the shift in paradigms from historical nationalism to modern regionalism against the backdrop of European, global, national and local historical developments as well as the shaping of the distinct identities of its multilingual and multi-ethnic population.

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Austrians --- Nationalism --- Group identity --- Collective memory --- Minorities --- Regionalism --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Civil rights --- Political aspects --- Trentino-Alto Adige (Italy) --- Human geography --- Interregionalism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- National characteristics --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Ethnology --- Venezia Tridentina (Italy) --- Sudtirolo (Italy) --- Südtirol (Italy) --- South Tyrol (Italy) --- Trentino-Tiroler Etschland (Italy) --- Tirolo (Italy) --- Trentino (Italy) --- Alto Adige (Italy) --- Regione Trentino-Alto Adige (Italy) --- Regione autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige (Italy) --- Region Trentino-Südtirol (Italy) --- Autonome Region Trentino-Südtirol (Italy) --- Trentino-Südtirol (Italy) --- Venetia Tridentina (Italy) --- 1866 --- 1866–2010 --- 2010 --- Approaches to South Tyrol --- Disquiet and Unrest, 1947-1960 --- Grote --- National --- Question --- Queston --- Rage --- Regional --- South --- State --- The Regionalist Drive --- Tyrol --- Tyrolean Nationalisms before 1918 --- Under Autonomy Rule

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