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4 - Knowledge Displaced

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2023

Tomás Irish
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Swansea University
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This chapter explores the displacement of knowledge following the First World War in two ways. First, it focuses on the displacement of people, specifically the Russian refugees displaced by the civil war in the early 1920s. It shows how thousands of intellectuals were combed out of the wider body of displaced people and relocated in sites across Europe and the wider world. Second, the chapter looks at how other forms of intellectual capital were displaced following post-war treaties and the redrawing of international borders, such as Hungarian institutions that found themselves ‘displaced’ in Czechoslovakia and Romania. Arguments about the displacement of knowledge demonstrated how individuals, institutions, and even modes of thinking were portrayed as synonymous with certain national identities in order to effect political change. The chapter explores the tension between the nationalization of knowledge and its simultaneous claims to universalism.

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Feeding the Mind
Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919–1933
, pp. 120 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Knowledge Displaced
  • Tomás Irish, Swansea University
  • Book: Feeding the Mind
  • Online publication: 07 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128476.005
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  • Knowledge Displaced
  • Tomás Irish, Swansea University
  • Book: Feeding the Mind
  • Online publication: 07 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128476.005
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  • Knowledge Displaced
  • Tomás Irish, Swansea University
  • Book: Feeding the Mind
  • Online publication: 07 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128476.005
Available formats
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