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In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe's political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to profess and institutionalize the value of inclusion. Nowhere, Dzenovska writes, is this tension more glaring than in the former Soviet Republics.Using Latvia as a representative case, School of Europeanness is a historical ethnography of the tolerance work undertaken in that country as part of postsocialist democratization efforts. Dzenovska contends that the collapse of socialism and the resurgence of Latvian nationalism gave this Europe-wide logic new life, simultaneously reproducing and challenging it. Her work makes explicit what is only implied in the 1977 Kraftwerk song, "Europe Endless": hierarchies prevail in European public and political life even as tolerance is touted by politicians and pundits as one of Europe's chief virtues.School of Europeanness shows how post-Cold War liberalization projects in Latvia contributed to the current crisis of political liberalism in Europe, providing deep ethnographic analysis of the power relations in Latvia and the rest of Europe, and identifying the tension between exclusive polities and inclusive values as foundational of Europe's political landscape.

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Sociologie, société et politique

History of Europe

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 avril 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501716867
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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SCHOOLOFEUROPEANNESS

SCHOOLOFEUROPEANNESS ToleranceandOtherLessonsin Political Liberalism in Latvia

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

DaceDzenovska

ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2018 by Cornell University Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,orpartsthereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Firstpublished2018byCornellUniversityPressPrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaLibrary of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Dzenovska, Dace, author. Title:SchoolofEuropeanness:toleranceandotherlessonsinpoliticalliberalism in Latvia / Dace Dzenovska. Description:Ithaca:CornellUniversityPress,2018.|Includesbibliographical references and index. Identifiers:LCCN2017029176(print)|LCCN2017031204(ebook)| ISBN 9781501716850 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501716867 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501716836 | ISBN 9781501716836 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501711152 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Liberalism—Latvia. | Toleration—Political aspects—Latvia. | Minorities—Latvia. | Postcommunism—Latvia. | Latvia—Politics and government—1991– | Latvia—Relations—Europe. | Europe—Relations— Latvia. Classification:LCCJN6739.A15(ebook)|LCCJN6739.A15.D942018(print)| DDC 320.51094796—dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2017029176CornellUniversityPressstrivestouseenvironmentallyresponsiblesuppliersand materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetablebased, lowVOC inks and acidfree papers that are recycled, totally chlorinefree, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Cover illustration: Agnese Bule,Latvian Forests Bloom Forever, from series Latvian Dream, 2000, drawing. Courtesy of the artist.

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PrefaceAcknowledgments

Introduction:ParadoxofEuropeanness:TheNeedtoExclude and the Virtue of Inclusion1.Pride and Shame: The Moral and Political Landscape of Europe’s Colonial Past in the Present2.The State People and Their Minorities: Rebirth of a National State with a Minority Problem3.Knowing Subjects and Partial Understandings: Diagnosis of Intolerance and Other Knowledge Practices after Socialism4.Building Up and Tearing Down: Critical Thinking in the Context of Tolerance Promotion5.Language Sacred and Language Injurious: Ethical Encounters with the Other6.Repression and Redemption: The Tensions of Rebordering EuropeEpilogue:LiberalismontheFence

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Preface

Istartedresearchingandwritingthisbookwhentheglobalvictoryofliberalismas the dominant rationality for organizing economic and political life seemed certain and ended it when it no longer does. For one of the main characters of the book—post–Cold War political liberalism—the shifts have been significant. In 1991, when the Soviet Union crumbled, liberalism seemed to be the light at the end of history (Fukuyama 1989). As most people and institutions grappled to find their bearings, a wide variety of economic and political liberalization proj ects were rolled out across the former socialist world. Neither entirely imposed, nor fully locally generated, they were the product of specific histories, shifts in the global distribution of power, and renewed faith in the efficiency of the market and the value of individual freedoms. In2005,whenIbeganfieldworkinLatviaonattemptstoembedtheliberalpolitical virtue of tolerance in public institutions and the hearts and minds of the public, the Latvian version of postSoviet capitalism had produced a dizzy ing creditbased economic bubble. The Latvian economy seemed to be going full speed ahead, and Latvia’s residents were urged to keep up—“put the pedal to the floor,” as one politician put it at the time. The speed with which political liberalism was making its way into public institutions was much slower. This was often attributed to the difficulty of changing “socialist mentalities.” Moreover, Latvians did not want to give up their collective sense of self and insisted on the importance of history and the nation alongside individual liberties and respect for diversity. Nevertheless, there was little doubt among the proponents of politi cal liberalism that things were moving in the right direction. After all, Latvia had just joined the European Union. Geopolitics and the law were on their side. In2017,asthisbookgoestoprint,thepositionofpoliticalliberalisminEuropeis no longer so confident. The 2008–10 financial crisis stopped the “pedal to the floor” politics, resulting in severe austerity measures that expelled large numbers of Latvia’s residents from economic life and even from the country (Dzenovska 2018a, 2013b; Sassen 2014). This did not, however, weaken faith in the capitalist market, neither in Latvia nor globally. Neoliberalism, as Philip Mirowski (2011) has argued, has come out of the crisis stronger than ever. Instead, it is political liberalism that seems to be in crisis (Boyer 2016, Westbrook 2016). Manyscholarsontheleftlinkthecrisisofpoliticalliberalismtothefailureof liberal politics to address the grievances of those dispossessed by neoliberal

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