Dietlind Hüchtker - History as Performance: Political Movements in Galicia Around 1900

This study analyzes history as performance: as the interaction of actors, plays, stages, and enactments. By this, it examines womens 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.

Dietlind Hchtker is Professor for Historical Transregional Studies at Vienna University.

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Political Movements in Galicia Around 1900

Dietlind Hchtker

TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ABBEY

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Published in German as Geschichte als Performance. Politische Bewegungen in Galizien um 1900 by Campus Verlag (2014).

Names: Huchtker, Dietlind, author.

Title: History as performance : political movements in Galicia around 1900 / Dietlind Huchtker ; translated by Chris Abbey.

Other titles: Geschichte als Performance. English

Description: First edition. | New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. | Series: Routledge studies in cultural history ; 93 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020026053 (print) | LCCN 2020026054 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367545710 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003089759 (ebook) | ISBN 9781000175608 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781000175639 (mobi) | ISBN 9781000175660 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)Politics and government19th century. | Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)History19th century. | WomenPolitical activityGalicia (Poland and Ukraine) | FeminismGalicia (Poland and Ukraine)History19th century. | Social movementsGalicia (Poland and Ukraine)History19th century. | Peasant uprisingsGalicia (Poland and Ukraine)

Classification: LCC DK4600.G3475 H8313 2021 (print) | LCC DK4600.G3475 (ebook) | DDC 322.4082/094779dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020026053

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ISBN: 978-0-367-54571-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-08975-9 (ebk)

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This book is a translation of my habilitation thesis published in 2014. I would especially like to thank Michael G. Mller for discussions and encouragement spanning many years. My thanks to Chris Abbey for his translation as well as Laura Loew for proofreading and copy editing. The Campus publishing house generously allowed the book to be re-published in English, and I am indebted to Max Novick from academic publisher Routledge for his patience and persistence. Moreover, I am most grateful to Christian Lbke, director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, for approving the translation, which the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research kindly funded.

Dietlind Hchtker
Berlin, February 2020

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