White but not quite : Central Europe's illiberal revolt /

The response to neoliberal globalisation in Central Europe has led to populism arising from its brutal transition to capitalism. Kalmar uses examples from popular culture to sport to reject as racist the idea that Central Europe's cultures are incompatible with liberal democracy.

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Main Author: Kalmar, Ivan Davidson (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, [2022].
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- White but not Quite: Central Europe's Illiberal Revolt -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables, and maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Race, Illiberalism, Central Europe -- Race, illiberalism, Central Europe -- Partial privilege and the semi-periphery -- How this books fits in -- Awful East, awesome West? -- 1 How Eastern Europeans Became Less White -- 2 How Central Europeans Became Eastern European -- Anti-Slavism and German-Slavic rivalry -- Yalta -- After 1989 -- Conclusion 
505 8 |a 3 How Central Europeans Became Central European (Time and Time Again) -- Before the First World War: the German idea of Central Europe -- Mitteleuropa in the interwar period -- Kundera and the 'dissidents' -- The rise and fall of the Third Way -- The Visegrád Alliance -- 4 Central Europe: Half-Truths and Facts -- Half-Truth 1: Freedom and democracy have failed -- The Economist -- Freedom House -- Varieties of Democracy -- Reporters Without Borders -- Half-Truth 2: Corruption is beyond control -- Half-Truth 3: There are gangsters and prostitutes everywhere 
505 8 |a Half-Truth 4: People are surly and miserable -- Human Development Index -- Happiness Index -- Half-Truth 5: Poverty is rampant -- Gross domestic product -- Foreign investment -- Inequality -- Wages -- Half-Truth 6: Outmigration is depopulating the area -- 5 The Last of the White Men: Central Europe's White Innocence -- 6 'Have Eastern Europeans No Shame?' Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Homophobia in Central Europe -- Islamophobia without Muslims? -- From Islamophobia to homophobia -- 7 Imitators Spurned: Why the West Needs Central Europe to Stay in its Eastern European Place 
505 8 |a The 'Imitation Imperative' -- The roots of democracy in Central Europe -- Mimicry rejected: on capitalism and exclusion -- 8 'We Will Not Be a Colony!' -- Effects of the 2008 financial crisis -- National capitalism -- Russia, China, and Central Europe -- Illiberals declaim against Western 'colonialism' -- 'We've never been colonizers!' -- So, is Central Europe responsible for colonialism? -- 9 Slavia Prague v. Glasgow Rangers: Lessons from a Football Match -- 'We will not kneel before you' -- Conclusion: When the Migrants Come -- Postscript: Confessions of a Canadian Central European -- Notes 
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