TY - BOOK AU - Cinar,Meral Ugur TI - Collective memory and national membership: identity and citizenship models in Turkey and Austria SN - 978-1-137-47365-3 U1 - 323.60953 23A PY - 2015/// CY - Houndsmills, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Citizenship / Turkey / History KW - Citizenship / Austria / History KW - Civics / Turkey / History KW - Civics / Austria / History KW - Collective memory / Turkey KW - Collective memory / Austria KW - Turkey / Ethnic relations KW - Austria / Ethnic relations KW - HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary KW - HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship N1 - Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction 2. The Turkish Historical Narrative 3. Historical Narratives in Action: The Turkish Case 4. The Austrian Historical Narrative 5. Historical Narratives in Action: The Austrian Case 6. Conclusions and Directions for Future Research N2 - "This study explores the role played by collective perceptions of the past in constructing, maintaining, and challenging views of citizenship and national identity while taking divergent visions of the past seriously. It seeks to understand how much of the disparity in the way citizenship questions are approached can be explained by the differences in visions of the past. Drawing on comparative historical analysis of two post-imperial core countries, Turkey and Austria, this volume explores how differences in perspectives on the past inform citizenship debates. It looks at the ways in which different forms of historical narratives foster certain citizenship models and create resistance against others. By doing this, it develops a conceptual framework applicable beyond the two cases when analyzing the history-identity nexus at the collective level"-- ER -