Interrogating Integration : Sport, Celebrity, and Scandal in the Making of New Germany

• Autore: Zambon Kate
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2025; Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 pages)
• Disciplina: 943.088
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism - Social aspects - Germany; Mass media and nationalism - Germany; Nationalism and sports - Germany; Immigrants - Cultural assimilation - Germany; Immigrants - Germany - Public opinion
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Emigration and immigration Social aspects; Germany Social conditions 1990-
• Classificazione: HIS014000SPO000000SPO066000
• Note generali: Title from eBook information screen..
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : integration, race, and popular nationalism -- Sentimental citizenship : Heimat and being at home -- Selling the nation on itself : transforming the people through global sporting spectacle -- "Soccer patriotism" : rehabilitating celebratory nationalism in the 2006 World Cup -- Sport integration : the promise and peril of "New Germans" -- ImmigrantpPatriotism : the redemption of national pride -- Destructive productivity : the Sarrazin debate and the threat of proliferating noncitizens -- Models and miscreants : the integration Bambi awards -- Conclusion : separating fact from fairy tales in Germany's Willkommenskultur.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Interrogating Integration explores how media campaigns, public debates, and international sporting spectacles construct national identity in an era of rising nationalism. Across Europe, "integration" has emerged as a guiding concept to regulate and control cultural differences, particularly in Germany where integration has become a watchword since the introduction of birthright citizenship in 2000. The expansion of German citizenship threatened the homogeneous definition of the nation and spurred increased scrutiny of people identified as migrants. This has opened a new chapter in the complicated, often ambivalent relationship between the White Christian-German majority and immigrants and Germans of color, particularly Muslim and Black Germans. The celebrations, scandals, and debates analyzed here reveal how the admission of new citizens inspired an optimistic cosmopolitanism that claimed to definitively separate the new Germany from its fascist past while simultaneously reinscribing racialized hierarchies and providing fuel for growing far-right politics. Using touchstones of public memory, including events surrounding men's World Cup soccer and the record-breaking success of a book blaming Muslims for Germany's decline, Zambon challenges persistent problems in European conceptions of race, where racializing projects take place under an "ideology of racelessness" and the atrocities of historical and transnational racisms are used to deny current local forms of racism. Interrogating Integration builds on this concept by exploring how the integration paradigm in popular media played into a new nationalist resurgence and how nativist arguments have deep roots to the core of modern democratic policies and discourses."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Interrogating Integration
• ISBN: 9780472904983; 0472904981
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910989371203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series