Die Ungarn in Rumänien: Demographie, rumänische Minderheitenpolitik und Budapester Nationspolitik
In: Osteuropa, Volume 69, Issue 6/8, p. 157-168
ISSN: 0030-6428
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In: Osteuropa, Volume 69, Issue 6/8, p. 157-168
ISSN: 0030-6428
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In: Osteuropa, Volume 69, Issue 6-8, p. 156-168
ISSN: 2509-3444
In: Problems of post-communism, Volume 66, Issue 2, p. 133-149
ISSN: 1557-783X
In: East European politics and societies: EEPS, Volume 31, Issue 3, p. 565-595
ISSN: 1533-8371
The article presents the perceptions of global and internal developmental hierarchies in Romania. According to our empirical results, the Western-centred developmental paradigm has deeply penetrated the worldviews of ordinary people in Romania. As a consequence, national self-perceptions, respectively, constructions of internal regional and ethnic differences in Romania, are powerfully shaped by the idea of East–West developmental hierarchies. Melegh introduced the concept of an "East–West slope" to denote a discursive construction used since the eighteenth century. This construction suggests that there is a gradual decline of development (or "civilization") as one moves from the West (North West) toward the East (South East). The author argues that this framework not only defines how Romanians position themselves in the global developmental hierarchy but also how they define their internal (regional and ethnic) hierarchies. The article also discusses Todorova's concept of Balkanism. This interpretive framework not only defines the perceptions of external observers but (following a process of cultural penetration) may also shape the self-perceptions of those involved. This article argues that Romanians have succeeded in avoiding—at least partially—the most severe consequence of the "Balkanizing gaze," which is a constant sense of inferiority. It is also important, however, that this Balkanizing gaze can be reproduced at a national/local level and (in interrelation with other types of developmental discourses) can organize internal hierarchies.
In: REGIO. Kisebbség Kultúra Politika Társadalom, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 187
ISSN: 1219-1701
In: Minderheitenfragen in Ungarn und in den Nachbarländern im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, p. 363-385
In: Regio / Ungarische Ausgabe, Volume 18, Issue 2, p. 160-182
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In: Regio / Ungarische Ausgabe, Volume 13, Issue 4, p. 264-295
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In: Regio: kisebbség, politika, társadalom. [Ungarische Ausgabe], Volume 25, Issue 2
ISSN: 2415-959X
In: Demográfia: English edition, Volume 58, Issue 5
ISSN: 1787-9566
In: Problems of post-communism, Volume 69, Issue 6, p. 514-527
ISSN: 1557-783X
In: Regio: kisebbség, politika, társadalom. [Ungarische Ausgabe], Volume 25, Issue 2
ISSN: 2415-959X
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 591-610
ISSN: 1465-3923
The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) has been the most stable actor in the Romanian party system over the past two decades. However, in this article, we argue that beyond this apparent stability, the linkages between RMDSZ and its voters have undergone a gradual, yet significant shift. The ethnic block voting of Transylvanian Hungarians was closely connected to the concept of a self-standing and parallel "Minority Society," and to the practices of institution building that the minority elites engaged in in the early 1990s. However, since its first participation in the Romanian government in 1996, RMDSZ has gradually departed from this strategy, a phenomenon that was also closely connected to a process of elite change within the organization. The present RMDSZ leadership puts less and less emphasis on policy programs that could reinforce the institutional system of the minority; consequently, it is unable (and unwilling) to organizationally integrate the community activists of the minority society who previously had played a key role in the process of (electoral) mobilization. At the rhetorical level, RMDSZ did not abandon the goal of building a parallel Hungarian minority society, but in its linkages to the Hungarian electorate, clientelistic exchanges have become predominant.
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 591-610
ISSN: 0090-5992