CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Laszlo, Szabolcs |
|---|---|
| Title | Majority-Minority Relations in Romania: Discursive Change without Structural Transformation, Discourse Analysis of Debates about Multiculturalism and Minority Higher Education (1997-2000) |
| Summary | The general aim of my research is to examine how the global diffusion of the political discourse of multiculturalism was received and implemented within the context of identity politics and state-minority relations in Romania, at the end of the 1990s. This question is investigated by focusing on a central issue: the political claim for minority-language higher education, and the ensuing debate which framed the reception of multiculturalism. The purpose is to identify the discursive positions involved in the political interaction, to analyze how they are constructed, and explain how they are transformed through the processes of ethno-political contention. Consequently, analyzing how the appropriation and instrumentalization of the discourse of ‘multicu lturalismȁ 9; was articulated in the interaction between the domestic majority and minority political actors, and the intervening international actor (the HCNM), reveals why this concept (originating from a theory of pluralist democracy) failed to become an effective and novel alternative to addressing antagonistic state-minority relations in Romania. Paradoxically then, the introduction of multiculturalism re-strengthened the existing ethno-political boundaries, producing a visible discursive change which represented an ideational shift of the majority political rhetoric in the wider context of ‘European integration’, without bringing a significant structural transformation in minority accommodation. |
| Supervisor | Kymlicka, Will; Miller, Michael L. |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/laszlo_szabolcs.pdf |
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