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Title

Polarization in North America : European perspectives / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Carmen Birkle & Manfred Prisching (eds.).

Publication

• Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, [2023]
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

• Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar
• Birkle, Carmen
• Prisching, Manfred
• Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, sponsoring body.

Description

349 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles; 23 cm.

Summary

"We are currently confronted with disconcerting signs of polarization in the societies of many democratic countries of North America and Europe. The storm on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, is only the tip of the iceberg of such developments. Conflicts are manifest between the generations and the genders, between ethnic groups in individual countries and between religious denominations, between migrants and the residents of countries, between the so-called elite and the average citizens, between the urban and rural populations. This interdisciplinary volume offers contributions by sociologists and historians, scholars in American and Canadian literary and cultural studies, linguists and philosophers, who, from a distinctly European perspective, analyze these highly topical areas of conflict. Historical views reveal that polarization in North America is not an exclusively recent phenomenon but has developed at least since the seventeenth-century colonial settlements in the New World."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 0029-8832 ; 932 Band

Uniform Title

Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 932. Bd.

Subject

• Polarization (Social sciences) > United States > Congresses
• Polarization (Social sciences) > Canada > Congresses
• Political culture > United States > Congresses
• Political culture > Canada > Congresses
• Political psychology > United States > Congresses
• Political psychology > Canada > Congresses
• Culture conflict > United States > Congresses
• Culture conflict > Canada > Congresses
• Social conflict > United States > Congresses
• Social conflict > Canada > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "The present volume contains essays read as papers at an international conference convened by the North Atlantic Triangle Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in November 2021."--Page 11.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Funding (note)

• "The conference and this publication have been made possible through the cooperation of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation."--Title page verso.

Contents

Introduction / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Carmen Birkle & Manfred Prisching -- pt. 1. Keynotes. -- Resentment and anger : deep structures of social polarization / Manfred Prisching -- Recent developments in the transatlantic relationship / Eva Nowotny -- pt. 2. Perceptions of polarization on the other side of the Atlantic. -- Looking for a scapegoat : Germanophone novelists of the 19th and 20th centuries depicting a polarized America / Wynfrid Kriegleder -- Polarizations at the intersections of jazz, identity, and Blackness in Ernst Krenek's 1927 opera Jonny spielt auf and Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer's 1928 still life Jonny spielt auf / Kirsten Krick-Aigner -- "God of Carnage" : the representation of suspicious comrades in screen fiction / Jörg Türschmann -- pt. 3. Polarization and its reflection in national identities in Canada and the USA. -- Them! Polarizing depictions of US-Canadian relations in Anglo-Canadian literature / Martin Löschnigg -- Challenges of diversity in American culture / Werner Sollors -- pt. 4. Polarizations at the intersections of race, gender, and class. -- Overcoming polarization? Kamala Harris and the intersectionality of race and gender in politics / Carmen Birkle -- United we stand - divided we fall : Frances E. W. Harper and struggles for equality in a nation torn asunder / Dawn Gartlehner -- Alison Jaggar's research on polarization at the intersection of gender and poverty / Brigitte Buchhammer -- Race and region : polarization in I'll take my stand and What the Negro wants / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. -- Air pollution, COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change : environmental racism and polarization in the United States in the era of crisis / Tatiana Konrad -- pt. 5. Protest, polarization, and politics. -- Make political discourse rational again : language and polarization / Rolf Kreyer -- Polarizing science under Trump / Christoph Irmscher -- Hasn't America always been a polarized country? The persistent renewal of polarization in American political culture / Mitchell G. Ash -- Is social polarization always bad? A historical perspective on the postwar sociology of conflict / Philipp Gassert.

Call Number

JFE 24-1391

ISBN

• 9783700193678
• 370019367X

LCCN

9783700193678

OCLC

1417265379

Title

Polarization in North America : European perspectives / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Carmen Birkle & Manfred Prisching (eds.).

Publisher

Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 0029-8832 ; 932 Band

Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 932. Bd.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Funding

"The conference and this publication have been made possible through the cooperation of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation."--Title page verso.

Added Author

Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, editor.

Birkle, Carmen, editor.

Prisching, Manfred, editor.

Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, sponsoring body.

Other Standard Identifier

9783700193678

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1391