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The apocalypse can bring upon the world either termination, either change. By exploring how emotions, ethnic or national belonging and digital technologies work together in constructing an apocalypticizing national self, this book offers a complex analysis of far rightist apocalyptic narratives. Content analysis performed on the blog of the New Right, a far rightist organization from Romania, unveils a fascinating imaginary of fear and hate toward otherness, of strong beliefs that the world, our world, is ending through its transformation into something else - something that we know and, at th

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgements -- Mihai I. Spariosu: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part One. Intercultural Contact: Applied Theories -- Victor Neumann: Between Orthodox Byzantium and Catholic Europe: Banat and Its Multiple-Coded Cultural Legacies -- Bibliography -- Mihai I. Spariosu: Cultural or Intercultural Studies in East-Central Europe? Preliminary Observations -- Bibliography -- Vasile Boari: Identity Crisis and the Failure of Multiculturalist Policies in the New Europe -- Formulating the questions -- The Judaeo-Christian legacy -- The Main Elements of European Identity at Present -- The Challenges of European Identity -- The Crisis of the European Identity -- Multiculturalism: Definitions, Typologies, and Brief History -- Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism -- The Failure of Multiculturalism as Public Policy in Western Europe -- Does Multiculturalism Represent a Challenge to New Europe's identity? -- Multiculturalism and the European Identity -- Bibliography -- Daniela Cervinschi: Beyond Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Theories and Policies in Cultural Diversity Management -- 1. Theories of Assimilation -- 2. Acculturation Theory -- 3. Multiculturalism and Post-Multiculturalism -- Transnationalism and Post-Multiculturalism -- Transnationalism -- Post-Multiculturalism -- 4. Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism -- 5. Moldavian Multiculturalism - A Failed Experiment -- Gagauzian territorial autonomy - a form of multiculturalism -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- Part Two. Intercultural Contact: Case Studies in Banat and Transylvania, 1849-1939 -- Lorand Madly: Neoabsolutism and Liberalism: Nation and Habsburg Politics after 1848 -- References.

Composed after the election of the first black U.S. president, after the post-global financial crisis, more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of xenophobic incidents across the globe, Unveiling Whiteness distills key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness