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Silly Season in Austria?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 14 August 2011 by delclem

When your hair stands on end under the royal colander

In the summer, when nothing but the bad weather can really shake people, three memorable events occurred in the schnitzel-shaped heart of Europe. Their structure is basically the same: they are all about how groups should be represented in a democratic society where the desperate longing of some can be simply annoying to others. Culture, as we have learned from theorists like Stuart Hall, is always a “struggle for meaning.”

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