Intercultural Conflict and Harmony in the Central European Borderlands

The Cases of Banat and Transylvania 1849–1939

Mihai I. Spariosu

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783847106920
• eBook ISBN: 9783847006923
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History Reference
• Index: History

This crossdisciplinary collection of essays combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to re-examine the most influential contemporary theories of intercultural relations and their application in various domains including historiography, sociology and cultural studies. A particular focus lies on Central Europe, historical Banat and Transylvania, but also on the current public policies toward ethnic and religious minorities as well as recent immigrants. It argues that much more complex approaches are needed, both historically and conceptually, in exploring intercultural relations. Thus, the political decision-making in East Central European countries and the European Union as a whole could benefit from a well-informed historical perspective by learning from the successes and errors of their predecessors.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Acknowledgements
• Mihai I. Spariosu: Introduction
• Part One. Intercultural Contact: Applied Theories
• Victor Neumann: Between Orthodox Byzantium and Catholic Europe: Banat and Its Multiple-Coded Cultural Legacies
• Mihai I. Spariosu: Cultural or Intercultural Studies in East-Central Europe? Preliminary Observations
• Vasile Boari: Identity Crisis and the Failure of Multiculturalist Policies in the New Europe
• Daniela Cervinschi: Beyond Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Theories and Policies in Cultural Diversity Management
• Part Two. Intercultural Contact: Case Studies in Banat and Transylvania, 1849–1939
• Lorand Madly: Neoabsolutism and Liberalism: Nation and Habsburg Politics after 1848
• Mircea Măran: Intellectual Elites and Serbian-Romanian Relations in the Serbian Banat of the Second Half of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century
• Ion Cârja: The Dilemmas of Cohabitation: The Orthodox and the Greek Catholic Communities in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century
• Ioan Munteanu: The Evolution of Literacy in the Historical Banat of the Late 19th and early 20th century
• Flavius Ghender: The Concepts of Nation and Ethnicity in the Românul Newspaper (1911–1918)
• Corina-Mihaela Beleaua: The Treaty of Trianon and Its Echoes: A Pluriperspectivist Approach
• Lucian Nastasă: The Hungarians of Romania and Minority Politics in the Post-Trianon Era
• Cornel Ungureanu: Cultural Interferences: Plurilingual Writers and Artists in Banat after 1920
• Ionuţ Apahideanu: Banat versus Transylvania: Main Differences in the Structural Dimension of Ethno-Religious Conflict, 1867–199
• Part Three. Explorations in Digital Analysis of Interethnic Relations in Banat and Transylvania: Methodology and Case Studies
• Mihai I. Spariosu: Digital Humanities, Social Sciences and Intercultural Studies: Principles and Methodology
• Adela Fofiu: Explorations in Data Visualization Techniques for the Preservation of Journalistic Memory (1860–1940)
• Vlad Jecan / Radu Meza: Co-Citation Mapping of the Intercultural Dialogue of the Intellectual Communities in Arad and Timișoara (19th to early 20th centuries)
• Dan Caragea: Ethnic Minorities and Great Romania: Automatic Textual Analysis of the Societatea de mâine Periodical (1924–1939)
• Contributors