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Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town
Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox & Liana Grancea

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations xi Preface, by Rogers Brubaker xiii Acknowledgments xix A Note on Names, Transcriptions, and Citations xxi List of Abbreviations xxiii Introduction 1

Part One: Nationalist Politics, Past and Present 23

Chapter 1: The National Question in East Central Europe 27 Empire and Nation 30

Historical and Ethnocultural Claims in the Habsburg Lands 34 Ethnic Intermixing and National Conflict 37 Nationalist Claims and Counterclaims 39 The National Question Recast 43 World War II and After 50

Chapter 2: Transylvania as an Ethnic Borderland 56

The Three Nationes 57 1848: The Emergence of Modern Nationalism 60 Dualist Hungary as a Nationalizing State 63 Nationalization Reversed 68 War and Regime Change 76 The Return to the "Nation" 82

Chapter 3: From Kolozsvár to Cluj-Napoca 89

Kolozsvár in Nationalizing Hungary 91 From Kolozsvár to Cluj 97 Once Again in Hungary 101 The Transition to Communist Rule 105 The Romanianization of Cluj 109

Chapter 4: Cluj after Ceausescu 119

The Re-emergence of Ethnopolitical Contention 122 The Struggle over Separate Schools in Cluj and Târgu-Mures 127 Gheorghe Funar and the Nationalization of Public Space 136 Reproducing Ethnicity: A Hungarian University in Cluj? 146 Counting and Categorizing 151 Conclusion 160

Part Two: Everyday Ethnicity 167

Chapter 5: Portraits 173

Mari and Family 173 Emilia 176 Karcsi and Ági 178 Ana 182 Zsolt and Kati 184 Claudiu and Lucian 188

Chapter 6: Preoccupations 191

Getting By 191 Everyday Coping Strategies 197 Getting Ahead 201 Accounting for Success 205 Conclusion 206

Chapter 7: Categories 207

Asymmetries 211 Cues 217 Doing Things with Categories 224 Ethnic and Regional Categories 231 Conclusion 237

Chapter 8: Languages 239

Interaction with Strangers 243 Private Talk in Public Places 246 Language Choice in Mixed Company 251 Language Mixing in Intraethnic Settings 259 Conclusion 262

Chapter 9: Institutions 265

Schools 269 Churches 277 Workplaces 283 Associations 287 Media 290 Conclusion 295

Chapter 10: Mixings 301

Disagreement and Conflict 303 Avoidance 307 Joking and Teasing 309 Choices 311 Conclusion 314

Chapter 11: Migrations 316

"Aici nu se mai poate" 316 Stigmatized Citizenship 321 The Ambivalent Homeland 326

Chapter 12: Politics 333

Funar 339 DAHR 343 Autonomy 346 Status Law 350 Conclusion 357 Epilogue 365

Appendix A: An Example of the Interactional Emergence of Nationalism 375 Appendix B: A Note on Data 380

Bibliography 387 Index 429

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