Nation-Building and Symbolic Politics in Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Twentieth Century
Our Flags, Our Heroes, Our Words
Nation-Building and Symbolic Politics in Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Twentieth Century
Our Flags, Our Heroes, Our Words
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Description
This book offers explanations about how such emotions are triggered and acted upon in one of the hotspots of current geopolitical change, Central and Eastern Europe.
Central and Eastern Europe is far from a grey colour and indistinct shades. Moreover, it has come back to center stage today when a new geopolitical pattern is emerging. The authors of this volume deal with this colourful area in a relatively broad sense: they cover five countries – Slovakia, Poland, Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. In the middle of the region, Hungary is also touched on in many of the papers. The authors focus on the struggle for control over space that reflects the complex, often conflictual and contradictory relationship between centres of power and minority communities. Symbolic nationalism practiced in urban spaces produce key events and key sites in these conflicts. The rivalry between national movements, whether it is through or for the various national symbols, takes many forms. This rivalry has been going on for more than two centuries and is likely to continue for some time. This work delves into the recent history of symbolic control over space in the region.
Table of Contents
Csaba Zahorán and Róbert Balogh
Chapter 1. Representations of Power in Urban Space in Chi?inau
Zsolt Bottlik and Csaba Zahorán
Chapter 2. The Culture(s) of Remembrance and Symbolic Nationalisation in an Upper Hungarian Town
Alica Kurhajcová
Chapter 3. Symbolic Engineering in the Void? Street renaming, nationalizing, and local traditions in post-WWI Transylvania
Gábor Egry
Chapter 4. Symbolic Nationalism in Mixed Communities: Saxons in their interaction with ethnic Romanians in Transylvania
Drago? Dragoman and Andreea Zamfira
Chapter 5. Transylvania, Ardeal and Erdély. The dynamics of Hungarian and Romanian symbolic politics in Transylvania since 1989
Csaba Zahorán
Chapter 6. Minority Activism and Mobilization for Bilingual Signs in Slovakia: what is symbolic nation-building symbolizing?
János Fiala-Butora
Chapter 7.: Hungarian Turul and Ukrainian Trident: Understanding the Role of National Symbols in the Context of the Russian–Ukrainian War
Csilla Fedinec
Chapter 8. Embedding Symbols of Imperial Rulership into the Urban Landscape. The case of Bratislava Castle and Palace of Culture in Warsaw
István Kollai and Olga Groszek
Product details
| Published | 20 Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 308 |
| ISBN | 9781666943108 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 47 b/w photos |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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