History as Performance: Political Movements in Galicia Around 1900

History as Performance: Political Movements in Galicia Around 1900
ISBN-10
1000175669
ISBN-13
9781000175660
Category
History
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2020-09-07
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Dietlind Hüchtker

Description

This study analyzes history as performance: as the interaction of actors, plays, stages and enactments. By this, it examines women’s politics in Habsburg Galicia around 1900: a Polish woman active in the peasant movement, a Ukrainian feminist, and a Jewish Zionist. It shows how the movements constructed essentialistically regarded collectives, experience as a medially comprehensible form of credibility, and a historically based inevitability of change, and legitimized participation and intervention through social policy and educational practices. Traits shared by the movements included the claim to interpretive sovereignty, the ritualization of participation, and the establishment of truths about past and future.

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