A Concise History of Austria

Beller, Steven

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“…So-called Statutarstädte, which in general are the large cities like Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg or Linz, are forbidden by statute from establishing their own municipal police force. This prohibition dates from the 1920s, a period of great political unrest and the rise of National Socialism in Austria (Beller 2006, Terpstra 2015. The fear persists to this day that (as happened in those years in Austria) police forces might be set against each other and play a political role (Wenda 2013).…”

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“…After the dark ages of the 1930s and 1940s (with their violent conflicts between militia aligned with the main political parties; Blasi 2015), the Dollfuss dictatorship, the integration into the Third Reich, and the terror of the Second World War (Beller 2006), Austria was confronted with the need for stability, social peace and lawfulness. From this perspective, the creation of the Austrian conservative and corporatist welfare state (Esping-Andersen 1990) must be seen as a huge success.…”

Section: Austria: State-centeredness and Legal Discoursementioning

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Plural policing, the public good, and the constitutional state: an international comparison of Austria and Canada – Ontario

Stokkom¹,

Terpstra²

2021

The Rise of Comparative Policing

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For the past two or three decades many jurisdictions have experienced a pluralisation of policing. In addition to the regular public police, in most countries new providers have become involved in policing public and semi-public places. This paper deals with the differences in the ways that plural policing and its consequences are defined and assessed in different countries. The paper focuses on two countries that differ considerably in the impact of neoliberalism, Austria and Canada -Ontario. In these countries different discourses are used to assess plural policing and its potential negative impact. In Canada the public good is the central concept in discussions of plural policing. This often refers to instrumental goals such as value for money and service delivery to consumers. In Austria plural policing is generally discussed in terms of the tasks and position of the state, the monopoly of violence, and by referring to constitutional and fundamental legal perspectives. This study shows that international comparative research on (plural) policing cannot be based on the tacit assumption that central concepts such as public good have universal relevance. On the contrary, these normative concepts are highly context dependent, an important conclusion for future international comparative research on policing and security.

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Plural policing, the public good, and the constitutional state: an international comparison of Austria and Canada – Ontario

Stokkom¹,

Terpstra²

2021

The Rise of Comparative Policing

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“…After the First World War, during the interwar period and again after the end of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, it was evident that Austria, as compared to Germany, was in many respects a 'weak(er)' nation-state. This was not only because Austria was a more belated nation-state than Germany, whose establishment (as a nation-state) was in 1871, but also because, for example, some scholars have even argued that today's ' Austria' could fully burgeon or develop its national identity and conscience only after the Second World War when it became the Second Republic (see Beller, 2017;Boyer, 1989;de Cillia, 1995;Haderlap, 2018), which is not even 80 years ago. Remembering that Ernest Renan (1882Renan ( /1992 was describing a nation as 'a soul' already in 1882, for Austria's twentieth century, a 'national soul searching' (Weiss, 2000, p. 89) was described.…”

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The Entanglement of Nation and Epistemology: Glances into the Backyard of Academic Dignity

Fox

2020

Croatian Journal of Education

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This article addresses the phenomenon of ‘national epistemologies’ that areunderstood as particular ways to think about the world, both enabled and restrictedby national(ist) ideologies as cultural thesis about distinct commonality andtogetherness. With regard to methodology, the article describes on a general levelhow these ‘national epistemologies’ can be identified and particularly how theirdevelopment as nationally idiosyncratic ways of conceptualizing and conductingresearch can be explained, taking the academic field of education as an example. Theexistence of such distinct national research thought styles can be detected, at leastin the West: in the United States, in France, in England and in Germany. Thereby,imperial aspirations of these nationally connoted and configured phenomena cometo the fore, indicating their efforts of spreading from epistemologically strongernation(-state)s into weaker ones in the way of ‘travelling ideas’. Starting from thethought style represented by German Idealism, two major reasons or purposes forthese travels can be distinguished: One ‘by invitation’ and one ‘as occupation’, asrepresented by the case of Austria.Key words: Austria; education research; national epistemologies; nationalism;travelling ideas.

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“…The notion of design as a collaborative and haptic pursuit would guide the projects of the Austrian Werkbund in the inter-war years, when Vienna was continuously under Social Democratic control between 1918 and 1934, despite control at the national level from conservative coalitions. 6 This ethos would ultimately find its culmination in the interiors on display in the Werkbundsiedlung.…”

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‘Out of All That Is Alive and Felt’: The Austrian Werkbund and the Design of Social Democracy

Rahman

2019

Journal of Design History

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This article analyses the interior designs of the Austrian Werkbund in the context of political designs for social democracy, focussing particularly on the 1932 Werkbundsiedlung as a site of aesthetic and cultural inclusion. By embracing the vernacular idioms of Central and Eastern European folk art, the Historicist style associated with nineteenth-century Austrian imperialism and the innovations of modern technology, the Werkbund represented an attempt to come to terms with the cultural legacy of the empire and to define the future of the Austrian state. In doing so, a comfortable, decidedly sentimental approach to design came to function as a site of encounter between history and ethnicity, offering a visual continuity between pre-1918 imperial Vienna and inter-war Red Vienna. Werkbund designers such as Josef Frank, Paul Fischel, Heinrich Kulka, Adolf Loos, Heinz Siller and Oskar Wlach were thus well positioned to contribute to the programme of eclectic decoration that was sponsored by the social democratic welfare initiatives of 1920s and 1930s Vienna.

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A Concise History of Austria

Cited by 11 publications

References 47 publications

Plural policing, the public good, and the constitutional state: an international comparison of Austria and Canada – Ontario

Plural policing, the public good, and the constitutional state: an international comparison of Austria and Canada – Ontario

The Entanglement of Nation and Epistemology: Glances into the Backyard of Academic Dignity

‘Out of All That Is Alive and Felt’: The Austrian Werkbund and the Design of Social Democracy

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