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Blood and Culture
Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss
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Edited by:
Julia Adams
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
About this book
Ethnographic study that examines how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across the generations of working-class youth in Germany and how generational gaps in national understanding inadvertently increase the appeal to neo-Nazism
Author / Editor information
Cynthia Miller-Idriss is Assistant Professor of International Education and Educational Sociology at New York University.
Reviews
“Blood and Culture is an extremely important ethnographic account of a phenomenon that is often examined in a quantitative or theoretical manner. Cynthia Miller-Idriss talks to working-class German youth—high-school students in the process of studying for a ‘trade’—and elicits from them their experience of what it means to be German in a country that is increasingly diverse and where the memory of World War II can no longer serve as an ‘excuse’ for not expressing national pride. She makes a convincing case that nation-ness differs not only across nations but across generations within the same nation-state.”—Mabel Berezin, author of Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe
“In this rare work on ‘everyday’ understandings of citizenship and nationhood, Cynthia Miller-Idriss helps to dispel stereotypes about allegedly ‘blood’-based and ‘racial’ ideas of German nationhood. She shows that ordinary people (even those particularly suspected to hold ‘racial’ ideas, such as working-class youth), espouse a cultural and behavioral, rather than biological, idea of nation. Moreover, in making generational experience key to national self-conceptions, she proposes a dynamic, change-centered notion of nationhood.”—Christian Joppke, author of Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
August 28, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9780822391142
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Main content:
256
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6 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780822391142
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Professional and scholarly;
