ISBN:
9781139108898
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 304 pages)
Series Statement:
Problems of international politics
DDC:
323.14
Keywords:
Geschichte 1950-2010
;
Nationalstaat
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Ethnizität
;
Ethnische Gruppe
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Deutschland
;
Russland
;
Türkei
;
Sowjetunion
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish radically changed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Germany's ethnic citizenship law, the Soviet Union's inscription of ethnic origins in personal identification documents and Turkey's prohibition on the public use of minority languages, all implemented during the early twentieth century, underpinned the definition of nationhood in these countries. Despite many challenges from political and societal actors, these policies did not change for many decades, until around the turn of the twenty-first century, when Russia removed ethnicity from the internal passport, Germany changed its citizenship law and Turkish public television began broadcasting in minority languages. Using a new typology of 'regimes of ethnicity' and a close study of primary documents and numerous interviews, Sener Akturk argues that the coincidence of three key factors – counterelites, new discourses and hegemonic majorities – explains successful change in state policies toward ethnicity.
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139108898
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