Abstract:Intellectuals were important to the spread of nationalist ideology in nineteenth-century Europe for a variety of reasons. Firstly, their works facilitated the international spread of the discourse of nationalism; secondly, they mediated between the fields of political institutions and cultural reflection. This article looks at the international mobility and networks of romantic-nationalist intellectuals, and uses the case of August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874) as an example.
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“…On the one hand, acting as a perceived threat to national identity (see, e.g., Quillian 1995, Ceobanu andEscandell 2010), persistence of a foreign culture in the host society is bound to erode the natives' perceived strength of national identity (see, e.g., Hillman We contend that, all else equal, the longevity of national identity matters for natives' preferences about the need for immigrants' assimilation because the longevity of national identity shapes the perceived resilience of national identity in the face of an alternative-immigrantculture. Consistent with the literature on nationalism and the nation state (see, e.g., Smith 1978, Meyer et al 1997, Greenfeld 1992, Leerssen 2011, Elkins 2010, Wimmer 2012, we view national identity as a cultural phenomenon that diffuses through social networks. In a polity where a sense of a common national identity has permeated social networks for a long period of time (c=o, where o stands for old), national identity will tend to be well-entrenched.…”
Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally assimilate into the host society or preserve their own cultural norms. We argue that when national identity is a source of intrinsic utility, the longevity of national identity influences a national identity's perceived resilience to an ostensible immigrant threat and, thus, affects individuals' beliefs about the need for immigrants' cultural assimilation. Empirical evidence based on data from countries of wider Europe supports our theory. An expert survey-based measure of the longevity of national identity, first, exhibits a robustly negative effect on the strength of individual preferences in favor of immigrants' cultural assimilation and, second, is an important contextual moderating variable that shapes the effect of individual-level characteristics on their beliefs. Thus, individual beliefs about the necessity of immigrants' cultural assimilation versus accommodation of cultural diversity reflect a historically-rooted sense of national identity.
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Documents inJEL-Codes: Z130, J180, D720, P510.
“…On the one hand, acting as a perceived threat to national identity (see, e.g., Quillian 1995, Ceobanu andEscandell 2010), persistence of a foreign culture in the host society is bound to erode the natives' perceived strength of national identity (see, e.g., Hillman We contend that, all else equal, the longevity of national identity matters for natives' preferences about the need for immigrants' assimilation because the longevity of national identity shapes the perceived resilience of national identity in the face of an alternative-immigrantculture. Consistent with the literature on nationalism and the nation state (see, e.g., Smith 1978, Meyer et al 1997, Greenfeld 1992, Leerssen 2011, Elkins 2010, Wimmer 2012, we view national identity as a cultural phenomenon that diffuses through social networks. In a polity where a sense of a common national identity has permeated social networks for a long period of time (c=o, where o stands for old), national identity will tend to be well-entrenched.…”
Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally assimilate into the host society or preserve their own cultural norms. We argue that when national identity is a source of intrinsic utility, the longevity of national identity influences a national identity's perceived resilience to an ostensible immigrant threat and, thus, affects individuals' beliefs about the need for immigrants' cultural assimilation. Empirical evidence based on data from countries of wider Europe supports our theory. An expert survey-based measure of the longevity of national identity, first, exhibits a robustly negative effect on the strength of individual preferences in favor of immigrants' cultural assimilation and, second, is an important contextual moderating variable that shapes the effect of individual-level characteristics on their beliefs. Thus, individual beliefs about the necessity of immigrants' cultural assimilation versus accommodation of cultural diversity reflect a historically-rooted sense of national identity.
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Documents inJEL-Codes: Z130, J180, D720, P510.
“…Moreover, different groups of Polish volunteers, led by Adam Mickiewicz, Wojciech Chrzanowski and others, took part in both the 1848‐9 revolutions and wars in Italy (Lewak : 18–21). The bond between the two nations was reaffirmed and strengthened: Mickiewicz, the romantic and nationalist poet who was regarded in Italy as the ‘ambassador’ of the Polish national cause (Leerssen : 259), in his project of a Polish Legion declared: serving Italy, Poles hasten the liberation of their country; co‐operating in the dissolution of the Austrian empire, they will free five million Polish subjects of this empire and provide to Illyria, Dalmatia, Croatia – neighboring Slavic regions of Italy – the occasion to implement their national aspirations. (Mickiewicz : 361)…”
This article analyses the activities organised in Italy to support the Polish Uprising of 1863 and the speeches and narratives used to present this foreign question to the Italian public. This international event brought to the forefront the same issues that had been raised by Italian nationalism, and also when discussing foreign national movements, Italy reflected both on her own identity and past history. In particular, the democratic ideals of the Risorgimento found their fulfilment in supporting the Polish rebels. The article, using archival sources, tries to build a transnational approach to Italian nationalism with a particular focus on how both Italian patriots and public opinion perceived and acted towards other ‘oppressed nationalities’ while also struggling to complete its own unification. Supporting a foreign cause was not only an expression of solidarity, but it also strengthened national sentiment and provoked a reflection on Italian national pride and identity.
“…He is a member of literary and artistic salons, and of the editorial committees of literary and artistic journals in one or more languages. A cultural mediator can be seen as a peripatetic ‘migrant’, thus demonstrating and underlining his intercultural and international outlook (Meylaerts ; Leerssen ; D'hulst , 143–150).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Why would we study cultural mediators in this context? First of all, to an even greater extent than the revered figures of the national literary and cultural tradition, cultural mediators or passeurs , as Werner, Espagne, Middell, Leerssen and Charle have shown in their research on the history of cultural transfers, are the true architects of the common frames of reference and of (sub)national or international cultural identities (Espagne & Werner ; Charle ; Middell & Naumann , 153; Leerssen ). A focus on intercultural mediators will therefore result in an essential revision of literary and artistic historiography.…”
During the interwar period, bilingual Belgium found itself in an existential crisis. In the 1920s and 1930s, growing linguistic conflicts between Dutch‐ and French‐speakers criticized the legitimacy of a unified Belgian nation and a solid national identity. In cultural life, that is in literary and artistic journals, in the course of arts exhibitions, in theatre life and in academies of fine arts, the validity of diverse cultural identities within Belgium was debated. Consequently, cultural and linguistic borders were shifting. In this article, the circulation of cultural identities in a conflicted bilingual country is analysed through the examination of the cultural transfers of one cultural mediator, Gaston Pulings. As a mediator, Pulings constantly transgressed political‐cultural, linguistic and artistic borders and his cultural practices were largely related to the construction, promotion or rejection of diverse cultural identities.
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