CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Kobzeva, Viktoriia Igorevna |
|---|---|
| Title | Forms of Authority, Social and Symbolic Boundaries: Chechen Diaspora and Diasporic Organizations in Austria |
| Summary | Despite increasing control over the diaspora, members of Chechen communities in Europe have been mobilizing to create organizations with their own agendas. This study examines the organizational landscape of the Chechen diaspora in Austria. I ask how the leaders of diaspora organizations become recognized as authorities, and how such authoritative leaders mediate the social and symbolic boundaries – both within their community as well as vis-à-vis the host society. Moving beyond Weber’s ideal types of authority, I show that organizational leaders depend on complex interplays and accumulations of different sources of knowledge, status and legitimacy. The forms and intersections of authority have improved understanding of how a fragmented diaspora still remains connected. |
| Supervisor | Mijić, Ana; Miller, Michael Laurence |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/kobzeva_viktoriia.pdf |
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