White But Not Quite

Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt

AvIvan Kalmar

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Since the ‘migration crisis’ of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its ‘new’ Eastern members – Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against liberal values and policies. In this startling and original book Ivan Kalmar argues that Central European illiberalism is a misguided response to the devastating effects of global neoliberalism, which arose from the area’s brutal transition to capitalism in the 1990s.Kalmar argues that dismissive attitudes towards ‘Eastern Europeans’ are a form of racism and explores the close relation between racism towards Central Europeans and racism by Central Europeans: a people white but not quite.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-04-20
Mått:138 x 214 x 18 mm
Vikt:409 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:334
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529213607

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Ivan Kalmar is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He has written widely on race, religion, and politics, including in Central Europe.

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"An elegant and thought-provoking examination of racism, illiberalism, and power structures in Central Europe — and of how Western prejudice and globalization have shaped the region." Emily Tamkin, US editor of the New Statesman and author of The Influence of Soros

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Introduction: Race, Illiberalism, Central Europe1. How Eastern Europeans Became Less White2. How Central Europeans Became Eastern European3. How Central Europeans Became Central European (Time and Time Again)4. Central Europe: Half-Truths and Facts5. The Last of the White Men: Central Europe’s White Innocence6. ‘Have Eastern Europeans No Shame?’ Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Homophobia in Central Europe7. Imitators Spurned: Why the West Needs Central Europe to Stay in its Eastern European Place8. ‘We Will Not Be a Colony!’9. Slavia Prague v. Glasgow Rangers: Lessons from a Football MatchConclusion: When the Migrants ComePostscript: Confessions of a Canadian Central European