Doing In-Between in the 19th Century in the Alps-Adriatic Region: Everyday Forms of Subjectivation Beyond Nationalising and Ethnicising Subjection

This paper lays the theoretical groundwork for exploring historical modes of subjection/subjectivation in the context of hegemonic narratives of ethnicisation and nationalisation processes in the Alps-Adriatic region of the Habsburg Monarchy. We reconstruct a mode of subjectivation that is expressed through practices of the in-between. In-between serves as an umbrella term combining gender, class, religion, language affiliation and, towards the end of the 19th century, ethnic or national affiliation.