RACIALISM

"""Racial thinking and relevant sciences in East-Central Europe in the decades around 1900"""

Coordinatore	KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM    more  Organization address address: Nador utca 9 city: BUDAPEST postcode: 1051 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Zsuzsanna Cognome: Gabor Email: send email Telefono: +36 1 235 61 83 Fax: +36 1 328 34 14
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Hungary [HU]
Totale costo	148˙202 €
EC contributo	148˙202 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-09-01   -   2014-02-28

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM  Organization address address: Nador utca 9 city: BUDAPEST postcode: 1051 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Zsuzsanna Cognome: Gabor Email: send email Telefono: +36 1 235 61 83 Fax: +36 1 328 34 14	HU (BUDAPEST)	coordinator	148˙202.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'At the core of my proposed research lies the desire to understand turn-of-the-century European fascination with the idea of race and the employment of modern sciences in the construction of racial theories in national and imperial contexts of East-Central Europe. The project will explore the history of racial thinking and related biological, human and social sciences in the mostly uncharted region of East Central Europe, with special focus on the Hungarian Kingdom in the decades around 1900. Rooted in the ethnically and confessionally most mixed region of contemporary Europe, Hungarian sciences faced unique intellectual challenges in constructing racial theories and creating ethnic, national and imperial identities, thus contributing to the process of Hungarian nation-building while legitimating liberalism in general. To understand how race, ethnicity, the nation and the multi-ethnic kingdom were co-produced in the region, systematic research will explore a variety of scientific disciplines, including ethnography, sociology, physical anthropology, criminal and social statistics, biology, public health, eugenics, and crowd psychology. Based on the Applicant’s preliminary studies and research hypotheses, the disciplinary trajectories of Hungarian ‘sciences of race’ seem to diverge considerably from the models offered by the historiography in the British, French and German contexts. Rather exceptionally, in the Hungarian intellectual field, a marked and overall shift towards a biological, hierarchical, and racialist thinking did not seem to have taken place before the end of WWI. Due to the originality of the research and its interdisciplinary nature, the planned outcome, a monograph, will contribute not only to the historiography of European “racial sciences” and science studies, but also to nationalism and imperialism studies, the cultural and social studies of fin-de-siècle modernity in Central Europe, and the wider scholarship on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.'