Open AccessAustrian Counter-Hegemony
Author(s) -
Christian Karner
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
ethnicities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.721
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1741-2706
pISSN - 1468-7968
DOI - 10.1177/1468796806073920
Subject(s) - sociology , opposition (politics) , ideology , hegemony , globalization , gender studies , nationalism , racism , politics , capitalism , agency (philosophy) , political economy , liberalism , neoliberalism (international relations) , political science , social science , law
International audienceThis article examines select discursive contributions to Austrian civil society as counter-hegemonic forms of engagement with (trans)national structures of power and exclusion. Their ideological opposition is shown to unfold around three thematic areas: (1) conceptualizations of (ethnic) identities that subvert discourses of ethnonationalism; (2) initiatives that challenge everyday racism and asylum seekers' structural marginalization; (3) a recurring critique of neo-liberalism and economic globalization. The article also demonstrates that the political agency in question is informed by a narrative of interpretation, which partly converges with seminal contributions to the sociology of globalization and which differs radically from neo-nationalist responses to the dislocations and uncertainties of contemporary capitalism
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