Accommodating National Diversity Within States: Territorial and Non-Territorial Approaches Since the Late 19th Century

Kuzmany, Börries; Battis, Matthias; Mulej, Oskar

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“…Not national territories, but the nationalities themselves, as corporate bodies, would govern their cultural affairs autonomously, and establishing national rolls would be a way to determine national belonging. Over the last 20 years, many nationalism studies scholars have consistently pointed to the Habsburg monarchy as an early laboratory of non‐territorial autonomy (Coakley, 2017; Kuzmany et al, 2022; Nimni, 2005; Osipov, 2004; Smith & Hiden, 2012).…”

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Objectivising national identity: The introduction of national registers in the late Habsburg Empire

Kuzmany

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Western societies over the last few decades have seen an increased interest in questions of group belonging and group identities, including ethno-national groups. According to essentialising or constructivist paradigms, belonging to a national group is commonly conceptualised in the range of objective versus subjective criteria, where objective entails ascription and subjective, self-identification. This paper suggests disentangling the paired dimensionsobjective and other-classification versus subjective and self-classification-by analysing the late Habsburg Empire. I argue that the introduction of national registers in the new provincial constitutions and electoral laws of Moravia, Bukovina and Galicia accelerated an objective understanding of nationality and increasingly favoured other-classification over self-classification in cases where national belonging had become an administrative category. Yet, to do justice to the individual's subjective feelings, authorities were supposed to investigate objectively a citizen's subjective identification-a procedure that can be termed "objectivisation." Such objectivising procedures thus reconciled an individual's subjective identification with an increasingly objective understanding

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Section: The Objectivisation Of National Belonging As An Applied Poli...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Objectivising national identity: The introduction of national registers in the late Habsburg Empire

Kuzmany

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Accommodating National Diversity Within States: Territorial and Non-Territorial Approaches Since the Late 19th Century

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Objectivising national identity: The introduction of national registers in the late Habsburg Empire

Objectivising national identity: The introduction of national registers in the late Habsburg Empire

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