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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795410203321

Autore

Dzenovska Dace

Titolo

School of Europeanness : tolerance and other lessons in political liberalism in Latvia / / Dace Dzenovska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-5017-1683-2

1-5017-1686-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

320.51094796

Soggetti

Liberalism - Latvia

Toleration - Political aspects - Latvia

Minorities - Latvia

Post-communism - Latvia

Latvia Politics and government 1991-

Europe Relations Latvia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Paradox of Europeanness -- 1. Pride and Shame -- 2. The State People and Their Minorities -- 3. Knowing Subjects and Partial Understandings -- 4. Building Up and Tearing Down -- 5. Language Sacred and Language Injurious -- 6. Repression and Redemption -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe's political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to profess and institutionalize the value of inclusion. Nowhere, Dzenovska writes, is this tension more glaring than in the former Soviet Republics.Using Latvia as a representative case, School of Europeanness is a historical ethnography of the tolerance work undertaken in that country as part of postsocialist democratization efforts. Dzenovska contends that the collapse of socialism and the resurgence of Latvian nationalism gave this Europe-



wide logic new life, simultaneously reproducing and challenging it. Her work makes explicit what is only implied in the 1977 Kraftwerk song, "Europe Endless": hierarchies prevail in European public and political life even as tolerance is touted by politicians and pundits as one of Europe's chief virtues.School of Europeanness shows how post-Cold War liberalization projects in Latvia contributed to the current crisis of political liberalism in Europe, providing deep ethnographic analysis of the power relations in Latvia and the rest of Europe, and identifying the tension between exclusive polities and inclusive values as foundational of Europe's political landscape.