Abstract
Researchers have argued that "metropolitan liberal cosmopolitanism has become a call-to-arms for anti-liberal neonationalist movements." It seems that the old divides between the rural and the urban, the traditionalist and the modernist, the parochial and the universalist have reemerged in new circumstances, when "older hegemonic notions of 'the nation' are being destabilized partly by the influx of migrants and refugees into rapidly growing metropolitan agglomerations." Examining Central Europe both confirms this global trend and provides us with examples of local variations in the rise of the so-called "neonationalism," which the authors understand as "a conservative, often reactionary mobilization in the name of 'protecting the nation" (Yiftachel and Rokem 2020). As elsewhere, this neonationalism creates new spatial images of both the local and the global, drawing new dividing lines.