Austria between 'social protection' and 'emancipation': negotiating global flows, marketization and nostalgia

Karner, Christian

Abstract

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.

Citation

Karner, C. (2016). Austria between 'social protection' and 'emancipation': negotiating global flows, marketization and nostalgia. In C. Karner, & B. Weicht (Eds.), The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia, 195-222. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-50273-5_8

• Acceptance Date: Mar 18, 2015
• Online Publication Date: May 27, 2016
• Publication Date: May 23, 2016
• Deposit Date: Nov 25, 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 195-222
• Book Title: The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia
• Chapter Number: 8
• ISBN: 978-1-137-50271-1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50273-5_8
• Keywords: Austria, marketization, nationalism, nostagia, emancipation
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1306283
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-50273-5_8