Spaces of ‘national indifference’ in biographical research on citizens of the Baltic republics 1918–1940

Feest, David

doi:10.1080/01629778.2016.1269438

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“…Scholars have examined how indifference to nationalist concerns was produced by, and interacted with, other competing forms of loyalty to class, family, gender, or locality. 67 Religion, however, has thus far been underrepresented in studies of "national indifference," which have tended to privilege questions of national, ethnolinguistic, or socioeconomic belonging over confessional ones. Notable works dealing directly with religion and "national indifference" include James Bjork's study of the role of Roman Catholicism as a form of solidarity and community that inhibited Polish and German nationalist projects in Upper Silesia, Lucian Leustean's use of "national indifference" as a starting point for analyzing Orthodox hierarchs in late nineteenth-century Bukovina, and Andrei Cusco's research on political strategies of "national indifference" among clerical elites in early twentieth-century Bessarabia.…”

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Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference: Perspectives from Imperial and Postimperial Borderlands

Paert¹,

Gibson²,

Berezhnaya³

2022

Ab Imperio

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Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference: Perspectives from Imperial and Postimperial Borderlands

Paert¹,

Gibson²,

Berezhnaya³

2022

Ab Imperio

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“…1 1 Subsequent authors building further on the concept, include: Bolin and Douglas (2017), Brüggemann and Wezel (2019), Feest (2017), Ficeri (2020), Jakoubek (2018, 2021), Kamusella (2016), Leustean (2018), Lichtenstein (2012), Pergher (2012), Polak‐Springer (2020) and Stergar (2012). …”

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Possibilities and pitfalls of the concept of national indifference

Ginderachter

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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This introduction to the themed section ‘The history of national indifference. A critical appraisal’ explores the challenges and possibilities of the concept of national indifference. It starts from the premise that national indifference remains a very useful concept to avoid falling into teleological narratives of nationalism. The central argument is that national indifference needs to be theorized as a non‐binary, relative concept that is not the complete opposite of national identification. Indeed, the contributions show that national indifference has gradations and can coexist with explicit, banal or everyday forms of nationalism, both among elites and ordinary people, both in and outside of East Central Europe, both before and after the Two World Wars. This central argument results from an engagement with three areas of debate surrounding the national indifference literature, which all relate to its (inadvertent) reproduction of binary understandings of nationalism: the dichotomous conceptualization of east versus west, nationalisation versus non‐nationalisation and elites versus masses.

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Contested minorities in the ‘New Europe’: national identities in interwar Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Palko

Foster

2021

National Identities

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Among the many challenges facing the new, or enlarged, nation-states that arose on the territories of the former empires of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in 1918, few were as vexing or complex as the so-called 'minorities question'. Thousands of disparate communities suddenly discovered that they now existed as minorities, often in areas adjacent to their designated homelands. As an introduction to this special issue, this article provides an overview of the key concepts and historical debates surrounding the interwar regional minorities question. It also seeks to challenge underlying assumptions that characterise such communities as perpetual victims of nationalist animosity.

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Spaces of ‘national indifference’ in biographical research on citizens of the Baltic republics 1918–1940

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference: Perspectives from Imperial and Postimperial Borderlands

Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference: Perspectives from Imperial and Postimperial Borderlands

Possibilities and pitfalls of the concept of national indifference

Contested minorities in the ‘New Europe’: national identities in interwar Eastern and Southeastern Europe

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