CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Paltineanu, Oana Sinziana |
|---|---|
| Title | Calling the nation. Romanian nationalism in a local context: Brasov during the Dual Monarchy |
| Summary | This dissertation analyzes the attempts of imposing ethnicity as a frame of interpretation among Romanians in Braşov/Br assó/Krons tadt, a Transylvanian town in the Habsburg Empire, subsequently in Hungary, and nowadays in Romania. The main purpose of this research is to explore how ethnicity worked in a period that scholars of nationalism have generally characterized as ripe with patriotic agitation and conducive to mass mobilization. The research focuses on three Romanian group projects based in Braşov, which thematically involved women’s activism, music, gymnastics, and theater, with the purpose of substantiating a bottom-up perspective on the nationalists’ politics and the responsiveness or non-responsiveness of the population. The three connected Romanian associations demonstrate that they were not simply “vehicles” for nationalism in the latter half of the long nineteenth century, and that the spin they put on societies was much more sophisticated. The multiperspectivism thus created by the three groups analyzed points to the difficulties and failures of imposing ethnicity as an interpretative frame and first act of categorization in the pre-war period. The case study opens up the internal bricolage and permeable boundaries of the Romanian nation in the making, exploring from below the rise of the Romanian women’s activism, the degree of groupness of the Romanians at the height of the national mass mobilization, the nationalized forms of socialization, and various other aspects of “intermittent ethnicity.” |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/paltineanu_oana.pdf |
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