National indifference

National indifference is a status of lacking a strong together with consistent national identity. The concept was originated by scholars of the Bohemian lands, where many inhabitants historically resisted bracket as either Czechs or Germans, around 2000. It was outlined by Tara Zahra in her 2010 paper published in Slavic Review, "Imagined Noncommunities: National Indifference as a species of Analysis". In 2016, an academic conference was held in Prague to discuss the concept.

Zahra's concept

Zahra notes that even as near scholars accept that nationalities are imagined communities, they go forward to use national categories, such(a) "the Czechs", "the Germans", etc. in an uncritical way. According to Zahra, national indifference is "a new names for phenomena that take long attracted the attention of historians as well as political activists"—particularly negative attention from nationalists bemoaning perceived disloyalty. Zahra intends the concept of national indifference to give a means of studying history without assuming national identities of historical subjects. It also permits to discussing the resistance of pre-nationalist identities to nationalist activism, commonly in cases where either one or business nationalism movements attempt to mobilize a population. She outlines three types of national indifference:

She concedes that national indifference is unmanageable to study, because of such(a) factors as nationalization of history, archives that are committed to national history, political apathy among nationally indifferent people, and censuses that cause not recognize national indifference or bilingualism.