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At the Fence of Metternich's Garden
Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization
Series: Ukrainian Voices
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This book will appeal to readers interested in Eastern European history, cultural identity, and the political evolution of Ukraine. It is suited to those seeking a nuanced understanding of Europe's shifting borders and the ongoing quest for solidarity and freedom.
This collection of essays reflects a personal experience of a painstaking but fascinating process of the both cultural and political βEuropeanizationβ of Ukriane.
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This collection of essays reflects the personal experience of a Ukrainian intellectual engaged, since his Soviet-time youth, in a painstaking but fascinating process of the both cultural and political 'Europeanization' of his country. The title refers, ironically, to the notorious Chancellor Metternich's quip that Asia presumably begins at the eastern fence of his garden (or, as another apocryphal version maintains, at the eastern end of the Viennese Landstrasse).
This is a story of both exclusion and inclusion, of walls and fences, but also of a longing for freedom and a quest for solidarity. It is a book on different ways of being a 'European'βat both the collective and individual levelβdespite various challenges or, perhaps, thanks to them.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9783838214849
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 March 2021
Country: Germany
Imprint: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Edition: New edition
Contributors:
- Series edited by Andreas Umland
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 335g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Dr. Mykola Riabchuk studied history and literary theory in Moscow in 1985β1988. During the 1990s, he co-edited the leading Ukrainian intellectual journals Vsesvit, Suchasnist, and Krytyka. Since 2012, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalitiesβ Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Riabchuk served as a Fulbright Fellow at Penn State University, the University of Texas, and George Washington University, Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC, Reuters Fellow at Oxford, Milena Jesenska and EURIAS Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Ramsay Tompkins Professor at the University of Alberta, and Ukrainian Studies Fellow at Harvard. Riabchuk is Honorary President of the Ukrainian PEN Center and Jury Head for the Angelus International Literary Award. His previous books include From βLittle Russiaβ to Ukraine (Krytyka / Universitas 2000; LβHarmattan / Markovic 2003); Two Ukraines: Real Borders and Virtual Wars (Krytyka 2003; KEW 2004; ΓrΓΆksΓ©g KultΓΊrpolitikai IntΓ©zet 2015); Die reale und die imaginierte Ukraine (Suhrkamp 2005); Gleichschaltung: Authoritarian Consolidation in Ukraine, 2010-2012 (KIS 2012); Postcolonial Syndrome (KIS 2011; KEW 2015).
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