{"product_id":"school-of-europeanness-tolerance-and-other-lessons-in-political-liberalism-in-latvia-hardback-9781501716836","title":"School of Europeanness; Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia (Hardback) 9781501716836","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSchool of Europeanness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDace Dzenovska (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501716836\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e276 pages, 4 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 4 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDzenovska employs a deceptively simple, yet illuminating, tool for her study of the well-worn subject matter of the last thirty years of Latvia's political and social relations.... her masterful book belongs on the shelves of academics from many disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e (Slavonic and East European Review) \u003cp\u003eDzenovska's critique is worth bearing in mind as increased migration has led to arise in right-wing nativism in Europe and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e (Foreign Affairs) \u003cp\u003eDzenovska's ethnographically rich discussions show how nationalism and a liberal form of statism are also intertwined in identifying and disciplining subjects who are not-yet European enough, in the context of a Europeanizing Latvia. The conceptually driven analyses provide larger insights beyond Latvia for anyone working on liberal values, nationalism and the minority question in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e (PoLAR)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool of Europeanness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e Nowhere, Dzenovska writes, is this tension more glaring than in the former Soviet Republics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing Latvia as a representative case, \u003ci\u003eSchool of Europeanness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool of Europeanness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Pride and Shame\u003cbr\u003e 2. The State People and Their Minorities\u003cbr\u003e 3. Knowing Subjects and Partial Understandings\u003cbr\u003e 4. Building Up and Tearing Down\u003cbr\u003e 5. Language Sacred and Language Injurious\u003cbr\u003e 6. Repression and Redemption\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607770951960,"sku":"9781501716836","price":109.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/school-of-europeanness-tolerance-and-other-lessons-in-political-liberalism-in-latvia-hardback-9781501716836","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}