Ethnomanagement
Ethnomanagement is the construction of an identity by a minority or majority society or other external institutions .
term
With the set of questions Ethno management is one of the Austrian busy Fund for Scientific Research -funded (FWF) research project at the University of Graz under the cultural anthropologists Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik and the time historian Eduard Staudinger that already several works of the situation of minorities and the life limits and based on the term "identity management".
In the early 1980s, this term was published by the Swiss sociologist Christian Giordano and gradually expanded and enriched by cultural anthropologists, historians and scientists from related disciplines. However, the term identity management is now used by information technology and is mostly used in connection with the administration of user data with anonymity and pseudo-anonymity. As an “extension of identity management and at the same time concretization”, the scientists therefore prefer the terms ethnomanagement and ethnicity as a tool to describe a minority: “two key terms in an age of increasing globalization for studying social changes,” says Staudinger.
Examples
Hermanik and Staudinger cited “examples from the ethnomanagement of the Transylvanian Saxons and the Hungarian Germans ”. The transformation in Southeast Europe led to a reflection on one's own ethnic group and thus to a new self-positioning. While for the Hungarian Germans the language functions primarily as an ethnic marker, for the Transylvanian Saxons it is religion. In the ethnomanagement of both minorities, the strategy can be demonstrated to hold on to the cultural heritage in order to ward off assimilation and acculturation processes .
The different national formations in south-eastern Europe, which occur from the 19th century to the present, form a topic that is on the one hand explicitly researched and on the other hand is also integrated as an important chapter in broader research tasks. The extensive references of ethnicity research are similar, without which an analysis of the above-mentioned nation formations could no longer be imagined, since an interdependence between political actions and ethnic markers has emerged in southeastern Europe. By analyzing these connections, the constructed nature of ethnicity and nation can be made clearly visible. The concrete occupation with the actors in the individual ethnic and national groups is one of the main motives in researching ethnomanagement.
See also
- Ethnicity (attribution to a social group)
literature
- Christian Promitzer, Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik, Eduard Staudinger: (Hidden) Minorities: Language and Ethnic Identity Between Central Europe and the Balkans (= Studies on South East Europe. Volume 5). Lit, Münster 2009, ISBN 3-64350-096-3 , p. 280.
Individual evidence
- ^ Doris Griesser: Metamorphoses of ethnic minorities. In: The Standard . August 11, 2009, accessed June 12, 2014.
- ↑ Nina Popp: The small turning point. In: University time. University of Graz, 2009, p. 12 ( PDF file; 5.0 MB ( memento of the original from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).
- ↑ Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik: Tradition in the Transformation. Examples from the ethnomanagement of the Transylvanian Saxons and the Hungarian Germans. University of Graz (see conference report: Experience of changing cultural spaces. Transformation processes in East German and Eastern European regions. December 2009; PDF file; 102 KB; 4 pages ).
- ^ Research profile - subject areas: nation building - ethnicity - ethnomanagement. Department of Southern European History, University of Graz, accessed June 12, 2014.
