An analysis by the renowned Yale historian Timothy Snyder (c) NYR, 2014
Archive for Nationalism
“Ukraine: The New Dictatorship”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags dictatorship, Nationalism, politics, Timoty Snyder, Ukraine on 25 January 2014 by delclem“Nationalist Copyright on WW1?”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 20th century history, Austria-Hungary, cultural memory, Europe, First World War, Nationalism, Serbia on 17 January 2014 by delclem
“As we are entering the anniversary of the centenary with the outbreak of World War One, controversies over how to commemorate the past are heating up. A few day ago, I published a comment in the Austrian daily Die Presse on debates and controversies over the commemoration of World War One. As unfortunately these debates are mostly published in German (and Serbian) only. Thus, some key points and links here.” Reblogged text by Florian Bieber, professor of SE European Studies, University of Graz
“Bosnia, in Peril Once More”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Barack Obama, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, Nationalism, politics on 8 December 2013 by delclem
“Early in President Obama’s first term, in May 2009, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. paid a visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Addressing the Parliament, he told Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian members, ‘My country is worried. (…) We have seen a sharp and dangerous rise in nationalist rhetoric.'”
>full text & illustration (c) NYT, 2013
International Exhibition Incident
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, controversy, De l'Allemagne, exhibition, France, Germany, Louvre, Madame de Stael, Nationalism, Paris, review on 30 April 2013 by delclem
New tensions between EU pillars Germany and France fought in the cultural field? De L’Allemagne, “an exhibition of art in the Louvre has provoked fury in Germany for portraying the country as a dark and dangerous neighbour – has it ignored key movements deliberately, or is it all a matter of taste?”
photo: detail from Max Beckmann’s The Hell of Birds (c) The Louvre
>full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
A Venial Sin of History
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1992, 1993, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, dismembration, nation state, Nationalism, Postcommunism, secession, Slovakia on 1 January 2013 by delclem
Kusturica’s Nationalist Disneyland
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Andrićgrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Drina, Emir Kusturica, film, Ivo Andrić, Literature, Nationalism, Serbia, theme park on 23 August 2012 by delclem
“On 28 June, which is the anniversary of the battle of Kosovo, the Bosnian Serb film maker was going to inaugurate Andrićgrad: a town (theme park?) built to celebrate the work of writer Ivo Andrić. Belgrade journalist Boško Jakšić dénonces a project, which he claims is intent on instrumentalising history and memory for nationalist ends.” Full text (c) presseurop.eu 2012
Another text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
Schnitzel-Land silenced?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, German language, Germany, language politics, linguistics, Nationalism on 15 July 2012 by delclemOn the alleged decline of the ‚Austrian’ language.
Language seems to be a hot topic in Austria this year. After a series of other incidents, the Viennese daily Die Presse alarmed the sunny nation last Sunday that the Austrian variant of German is in danger of extinction. A survey among first-year students of German at the University of Vienna carried out by linguist Peter Wiesinger has revealed that one third of the young adults use German-German expressions even in cases where there is an Austrian word, eg. Junge instead of Bub („boy“, „lad“). Continue reading
Soccer Nationalism is back ;)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Europe, Nationalism, soccer on 8 June 2012 by delclem
‘The imagined community of millions seems more real
as a team of eleven named people.” Eric Hobsbawm
Shepherd burger
Posted in Uncategorized with tags commodification, fast food, Nationalism, Serbia on 1 April 2012 by delclemQuiz: is this a ‘real’ commercial or ironical concept art? Interesting for the cultural analyst is in any case the connection made between nationalism & commodity.
I owe this one to Mirna Zeman, Paderborn, who analyses such narratives.
Kulturkampf in Budapest
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Budapest, Hungary, Kulturkampf, Little Warsaw, Nationalism on 31 December 2011 by delclem
Little Warsaw: The Battle of Inner Truth – Budapest, 2011
(while a cultural struggle of sorts is taking place in Hungary…)
delirium clemens 