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Austria Between “Social Protection” and “Emancipation”: Negotiating Global Flows, Marketization and Nostalgia

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Focused on Austria, a national context that still ranks amongst the comparatively more affluent and structurally resilient, this chapter examines diverse public discourses formulated in the context of the global and European economic crises since 2008 and their local impact; the economy’s perceived ‘disembedding’ and hypercommodification are shown to lie at the heart of current Austrian concerns, further entrenching a clash between nationalist nostalgia and inclusive multiculturalism, respectively.

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Acknowledgements

This chapter builds on research I conducted in the winter/spring of 2015 as a Research Associate in the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. I would like to thank the Center and its staff for their hospitality and support.

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Karner, C. (2016). Austria Between “Social Protection” and “Emancipation”: Negotiating Global Flows, Marketization and Nostalgia. In: Karner, C., Weicht, B. (eds) The Commonalities of Global Crises. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50273-5_8

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