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This book questions the prevalent assumption that ethnicity and nationalist politics had nothing to do with the Cold War and that, far from being frozen until the fall of communism, they remained central to the conflict in Europe. Leading scholars bring their understanding of particular regions to bear on the wider issue of why ethnic explanations were written out of the discourse and whether this was a failure on the part of Western observers. This in turn has led to an overly simple understanding of power flowing downwards, from superpower to nation state and from state to society. Engaging

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies and the definitive published version is available at http://www.inv.si/Dokumenti/dokumenti.aspx?iddoc=115&idmenu1=181&lang=eng ; The article, a revised version of a lecture given at the Institute for Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana, discusses the domestic and international dimensions of minority politics in post-Nazi Carinthia. Based on archival research in Britain, Austria and Slovenia (Yugoslavia) it argues that despite Austria's transition from National Socialist rule to post-war democracy there was evidence of a basic continuity in the stigmatisation (and self-stigmatisation) of the Slovene minority. This continuity largely explains why Carinthian politics moved in an increasingly anti-Slovene direction in the 1950s, leading in 1958 to the demolition of the bilingual school system which had been introduced in 1945. The international dimension, Yugoslavia's territorial claim, the policies of the West and the Cold War are also discussed but the article argues that they were secondary to the dynamics of provincial politics.

This paper is in the 25th Jubilee Issue of Austrian Studies, 'Celebrations. Festkultur in Austria' from workshop at University of London, Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature, Institute of Modern Languages Research / Austrian Cultural Forum, London. This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Austrian Studies and the definitive published version is available at http://www.mhra.org.uk/index.php/journals/AS

This paper was published in the journal S.I.M.O.N - Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation and is also available at http://simon.vwi.ac.at/index.php/53-issues/2017-2/coming-to-terms/172-wer-waren-heinrich-und-alice-scheuer-erkund-ig-ungen-eines-enkelkindes. This paper appears here with the permission of the publisher. ; In his Simon Wiesenthal Lecture, the British historian Robert Knight attempted to trace the fates of his grandparents in their political, human, and familial contexts, and to discern the roots of their thoughts and actions. Heinrich Scheuer remained not only connected but deeply loyal to the state of Austria in all its incarnations through the first half of the twentieth century. Alice Scheuer was dedicated to Austrian modernity and its avant-garde. Their Jewish backgrounds were hardly relevant, identity – as the historian was able to deduce from the available documentation – was not a question to them, or if it did, it did so only in the background, not noticeably or even discernibly. It was only of importance to the others: The conflicts already reached a climax under the Dollfuß dictatorship. Following the 'Anschluß', their two children – Georg and Rose – manage to escape. The parents remained, were deported to Maly Trostenets, and murdered. It would take a long time for the children to come to terms with their parents' past, which left many unanswered questions, resonating even among their descendants.

This article seeks to link Austrian policy and attitudes towards Displaced Persons and refugees with the postwar project of establishing a national identity which was clearly demarcated from National Socialist Germany. Building on critical views of Austria as a 'reluctant country of exile' it goes back to postwar Austrian perceptions of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as an organization which, though providing welcome relief, was also tarnished through association with criminality and the black market. It then examines Austria's demarcation from 'ethnic Germans' on the one hand and Jewish Displaced Persons on the other, which reflected an informal 'heirarchy of empathy' but also indicated the potential of both groups, in very different ways, to disrupt the national demarcation project. An analysis of the treatment of anti-communist DPs and refugees in the Cold War questions the claim that Austrians sympathized with them. The article concludes that while the perception of Austrian humanitarianism towards DPs and refugees became part of the Austrian self-image as a victim of Nazi rule and a potential victim of the Soviet Union, the historical record is much less clear-cut.

Farm2School is part of the local-food and whole-food movements, in the same family as farmers' markets and CSAs. There were fewer than ten Farm2School programs in 1997, and now there are more than 2,000, gaining traction in various communities because of alignment of the interests of farmers, schools, government, students, and the public at large. They address a grass-roots consensus on health promotion by eating better and how to sustain elements of the community.

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