Franz Höllinger & Markus Hadler 
Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries 
National and Transnational Identities in Europe and Beyond

This book investigates the impact of social phenomena such as recently created nation states, emerging international confederations, cross-national migration, and contemporary global forces on ethnic and national identities in Europe and beyond. The articles in this volume are written by leading international scholars, based on a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches, and offer a multifaceted discussion of the challenging issue of collective identities.

قائمة المحتويات

Content

Introduction7

I Determinants and Effects of National Identity19

Postmodern Ethnicity: Diversity and Difference
Albert F. Reiterer21

National Pride, Patriotism and Nationalism:
Methodological Reflections and Empirical Analyses
Franz Höllinger, Jürgen Fleiß and Helmut Kuzmics45

National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigrants
in a Comparative Perspective
Jorge Vala and Rui Costa-Lopes71

Religion and National Identity in an Enlarging Europe
Miroslav Tížik101
A Success Story of Creating National Identity in Tanzania:
The Vision of Julius Kambarage Nyerere
Bernadette Müller125

Collective Representations of Atrocities and
National Identity: The Case of Darfur
Joachim J. Savelsberg and Hollie Nyseth149

II From National to Transnational Identity177

The Contingency of Europe’s Boundaries
Josef Langer179

Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Memory Trace
in the Central European Countries
Magdalena Piscová and Miloslav Bahna201

Political Unification and the Purported European Society:
On the Social Basis of European Integration
Stefan Immerfall221

All or Nothing: Identity Bonding to Europe, the Nation,
or Neither in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
Markus Hadler, Lynn Chin and Kiyoteru Tsutsui237

National and Transnational Identities
of Intra-European Migrants
Michael Braun and Walter Müller263

‘Interethnic Alliances’ and National We-Images:
An Analysis of Internet Fora Related to Sport and Migration
Dieter Reicher289

Institutional Theories of Education
in Supra-National Society
John W. Meyer and Francisco O. Ramirez311

List of Scientific Publications of Max Haller331

About the Authors351

عن المؤلف

Franz Höllinger is Professor at the Department of Sociology at Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria.
Markus Hadler is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, USA.