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Austrian Counter-Hegemony
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Abstract This article examines select discursive contributions to Austrian civil society as counter-hegemonic forms of engagement with (trans)national structures of power and exclusion. Their ideological opposition is shown to unfold around three thematic areas: (... view more
This article examines select discursive contributions to Austrian civil society as counter-hegemonic forms of engagement with (trans)national structures of power and exclusion. Their ideological opposition is shown to unfold around three thematic areas: (1) conceptualizations of (ethnic) identities that subvert discourses of ethnonationalism; (2) initiatives that challenge everyday racism and asylum seekers’ structural marginalization; (3) a recurring critique of neo-liberalism and economic globalization. The article also demonstrates that the political agency in question is informed by a narrative of interpretation, which partly converges with seminal contributions to the sociology of globalization and which differs radically from neo-nationalist responses to the dislocations and uncertainties of contemporary capitalism.... view less
Classification
Sociology
Free Keywords
anti-racism; asylum seekers; civil society; economic globalization; ‘Fortress Europe’;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 82-115
Journal
Ethnicities, 7 (2007) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796806073920
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)