Enlarging European Memory

Author : Willfried Spohn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351950596

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Collective Memory and European Identity by Willfried Spohn Pdf

Is it possible to create a collective European identity? In this volume, leading scholars assess the link between collective identity construction in Europe and the multiple memory discourses that intervene in this construction process. The authors believe that the exposure of national collective memories to an enlarging communicative space within Europe affects the ways in which national memories are framed. Through this perspective, several case studies of East and West European memory discourses are presented. The first part of the volume elaborates how collective memory can be identified in the new Europe. The second part presents case studies on national memories and related collective identities in respect of European integration and its extension to the East. This timely work is the first to investigate collective identity construction on a pan-European scale and will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students of political sociology and European studies.

Author : Mareike König
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064806915

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Enlarging European Memory by Mareike König Pdf

Author : Małgorzata Pakier,Bo Stråth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454300

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A European Memory? by Małgorzata Pakier,Bo Stråth Pdf

An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe--with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences--was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe's past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe's past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.

Author : Silke Roth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1845455169

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Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union by Silke Roth Pdf

In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either western or eastern Europe, this book investigates the similarities and differences in diverse parts of Europe. Although initially limited, gender equality was part of the original framework of the European Union, an organization often more open than national governments to feminist demands, as this volume illustrates with case studies from eastern and western Europe. The enlargement process thus provides some important policy instruments for increasing equality between men and women.

Author : Chiara De Cesari,Ayhan Kaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429846830

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European Memory in Populism by Chiara De Cesari,Ayhan Kaya Pdf

European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and populism in contemporary Europe. Focusing on circulating ideas of memory, especially European memory, in contemporary populist discourses, the book also analyses populist ideas in sites and practices of remembrance that usually tend to go unnoticed. More broadly, the theoretical heart of the book reflects upon the similarities, differences, and slippages between memory, populism, nationalism, and cultural racism and the ways in which social memory contributes to give substance to various ideas of what constitutes the ‘people’ in populist discourse and beyond. Bringing together a group of political scientists, anthropologists, and cultural and memory studies scholars, the book illuminates the relationship between memory and populism from different angles and in different contexts. The contributors to the volume discuss dominant notions of European heritage that circulate in the public sphere and in political discourse, and consider how the politics of fear relates to such notions of European heritage and identity across and beyond Europe and the European Union. Ultimately, this volume will shed light on how notions of a shared European heritage and memory can be used not only to include and connect Europeans, but also to exclude some of them. Investigating the ways in which nationalist populist forces mobilize the idea of a shared, homogeneous European civilization, European Memory in Populism will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of European studies, heritage and memory studies, migration studies, anthropology, political science and sociology. Chapters 1, 4, 6, and 10 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Peter J. Verovsek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1526163764

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Memory and the Future of Europe by Peter J. Verovsek Pdf

This book examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union. It traces Europe's political, economic and financial crisis to the loss of these memories of the rupture of 1945. In order to survive the EU will have to prove that it can act effectively in the face of future challenges.

Author : Frank Schimmelfennig,Ulrich Sedelmeier
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 080148961X

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The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe by Frank Schimmelfennig,Ulrich Sedelmeier Pdf

This book demonstrates the importance of the credibility and the costs of accession conditionality for the adoption of EU rules in Central and Eastern Europe.

Author : Uilleam Blacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317428381

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Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe by Uilleam Blacker Pdf

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities that were filled with the traces of the foreign cultures of the former inhabitants. In the immediate post-war period these traces were not acknowledged, the new inhabitants going along with official policies of oblivion, the national narratives of new post-war regimes, and the memorializing of the victors. In time, however, and increasingly over recent decades, the former "other pasts" have been embraced and taken on board as part of local cultural memory. This book explores this interesting and increasingly important phenomenon. It examines official ideologies, popular memory, literature, film, memorialization and tourism to show how other pasts are being incorporated into local cultural memory. It relates these developments to cultural theory and argues that the relationship between urban space, cultural memory and identity in Eastern Europe is increasingly becoming a question not only of cultural politics, but also of consumption and choice, alongside a tendency towards the cosmopolitanization of memory.

Author : Anne Marie Le Gloannec
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501716683

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Continent by Default by Anne Marie Le Gloannec Pdf

Introduction : geopolitics without power politics -- From a strategy by default to a grand strategy? : in the beginning was enlargement -- The limits of enlargement : the end of certainties -- Peace, war, and confetti : an elusive security policy -- Boundaries and borderlands : from inside out? -- A crisis in the making? : the refugee crisis -- Competitive decadence? : Russia and the EU -- Conclusion : the waning geography of influence

Author : Mckee
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780335226443

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Health Policy and European Union Enlargement by Mckee Pdf

While there may be consensus on the broader issues of the core objectives of the health care system, expectations differ between EU countries, and European national policy-makers. This book seeks firstly to assess the impact of the enlargement process and then to analyse the challenges that lie ahead in the field of health and health policy.

Author : Małgorzata Pakier,Joanna Wawrzyniak
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782389309

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Memory and Change in Europe by Małgorzata Pakier,Joanna Wawrzyniak Pdf

In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region’s experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.

Author : Catherine Guisan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136599118

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A Political Theory of Identity in European Integration by Catherine Guisan Pdf

This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the speech and deeds of European founders. Using a fresh and innovative approach, this monograph connects political theory with concrete political practices based on empirical evidence, and theorizes the internal process of European reconciliations as it has been experienced by those involved. The book draws upon over 100 interviews, memoirs, autobiographies and essays of elite and grassroot actors across the history of the European Union, from the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1950-2 to the 2010 financial crisis. It introduces the reader to major contemporary Western political thinkers, Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur, and examines how their theories develop the interpretation of political phenomena such as European integration. As one of the first studies of EU memories, this approach opens a unique window of analysis to view the development of the European community, and makes a fascinating contribution to our understanding of the political tradition born of 60 years of European integration. A Political Theory of Identity in European Integration: Memory and Policies will be of strong interest to students and scholars of European politics, contemporary democratic theory and EU studies.

Author : Krzysztof Michalski
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9637326472

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Conditions of European Solidarity: What holds Europe together? by Krzysztof Michalski Pdf

The book addresses contemporary developments in European identity politics as part of a larger historical trajectory of a common European identity based on the idea of 'solidarity.' The authors explain the special sense in which Europeans perceive their obligations to their less fortunate compatriots, to the new East European members, and to the world at large. An understanding of this notion of 'solidarity' is critical to understanding the specific European commitment to social justice and equality. The specificity of this term helps to distinguish between what the Germans call "social state" from the Anglo-Saxon, and particularly American, political and social system focused on capitalism and economic liberalism. This collection is the result of the work of an extremely distinguished group of scholars and politicians, invited by the previous President of the European Union, Romano Prodi, to reflect on some of the most important subjects affecting the future of Europe.

Author : Aline Sierp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317662044

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History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity by Aline Sierp Pdf

This book questions the presupposition voiced by many historians and political scientists that political experiences in Europe continue to be interpreted in terms of national history, and that a European community of remembrance still does not exist. By tracing the evolution of specific memory cultures in two successor countries of the Fascist/Nazi regime (Italy and Germany) and the impact of structural changes upon them, the book investigates wider democratic processes, particularly concerning the conservation and transmission of values and the definition of identity on different levels. It argues that the creation of a transnational European memory culture does not necessarily imply the erasure of national and local forms of remembrance. It rather means the creation of a further supranational arena where diverging memories can find their expression and can be dealt with in a different way. Through the triangulation of agents of memory construction, constraints and opportunities and actual portrayals of the past, this volume explores the difficulties faced by a multinational entity like the EU in reaching some kind of consensus on such a sensitive subject as history.

Author : Laure Neumayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351141741

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The Criminalisation of Communism in the European Political Space after the Cold War by Laure Neumayer Pdf

Memory has taken centre stage in European-level policies after the Cold War, as the Western historical narrative based on the uniqueness of the Holocaust was being challenged by calls for an equal condemnation of Communism and Nazism. This book retraces the anti-communist mobilisations carried out by Central European representatives in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and in the European Parliament since the early 1990s. Based on archive consultation, interviews and ethnographic observation, it analyses the memory entrepreneurs’ requests for collective remembrance and legal accountability of Communist crimes in European institutions, Pan-European political parties and transnational advocacy networks. The book argues that these newcomers managed to strengthen their positions and impose a totalitarian interpretation of Communism in the European assemblies, which directly shaped the EU’s remembrance policy. However, the rules of the European political game and recurring ideological conflicts with left-wing opponents reduced the legal and judicial implications of this anti-communist grammar at the European level. This text will be of key interest to scholars and graduate students in memory studies, post-Communist politics and European studies, and more broadly in history, political science and sociology.