posted on 2017-12-15, 11:45authored byRobert Knight
The article, a revised version of a lecture given at the Institute for Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana, discusses the domestic and international dimensions of minority politics in post-Nazi Carinthia. Based on archival research in Britain, Austria and Slovenia (Yugoslavia) it argues that despite Austria’s transition from National Socialist rule to post-war democracy there was evidence of a basic continuity in the stigmatisation (and self-stigmatisation) of the Slovene minority. This continuity largely explains why Carinthian politics moved in an increasingly anti-Slovene direction in the 1950s, leading in 1958 to the demolition of the bilingual school system which had been introduced in 1945. The international dimension, Yugoslavia’s territorial claim, the policies of the West and the Cold War are also discussed but the article argues that they were secondary to the dynamics of provincial politics.
History
School
Social Sciences
Department
Politics and International Studies
Published in
Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies
Citation
KNIGHT, R., 2018. The Carinthian Slovenes and the continuities of post-Nazi Carinthia. Razprave in Gradivo: revija za narodnostna vprasanja [Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies], 79, pp.97-124.
Publisher
Institute for Ethnic Studies
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Publication date
2018
Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies and the definitive published version is available at http://www.inv.si/Dokumenti/dokumenti.aspx?iddoc=115&idmenu1=181&lang=eng