European National Identities

Author : Roland Vogt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351296465

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Making sense of the perplexing diversity of Europe is a challenging task. How compatible are national identities in Europe? What makes Europe European? What do Europeans have in common? European National Identities explores the diversity of European states, nations, and peoples. In doing so, the editors focus on the origins and elements of different national identities in Europe and different themes of national self-understanding. Each chapter contributes a unique view of national identities gravitating around myth, historical experiences and traumas, values, ethnic and linguistic differences, and religious fault lines. This work grounds European national identities within cultural, historical, and political dynamics, which makes the work approachable for many readers, including historians, sociologists, and political scientists. In addition, the editors illustrate that national identities continue to be a source of contention and a challenge to political developments, the demands of immigrants and minorities, and the dynamics of European integration. This book draws particular attention to identity shifts and conflicts within individual European countries.

Author : Bettina Westle,Paolo Segatti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191047114

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European Identity in the Context of National Identity by Bettina Westle,Paolo Segatti Pdf

In the age of grand recession, nationalism seems to have returned to Europe. In every EU country, many citizens are unhappy with the perceived intrusion of 'Europe' in their way-of-life. Any idea of a genuine pan-European identity seems to be in retreat. This book provides an unprecedented insight into the multiple ways through which citizens of 16 countries connect their own national identity to European identity. The book's theoretical claim is that European identity, as well as national identity, should be empirically assessed taking into account its multi-dimensionality. The volume's contributors suggest that European identity was always unlikely to be a source of political integration and political legitimacy in the way national identities have been in the past and are today. Europeans' primary identity is national rather than supranational. Mutual trust between European peoples exists, but is somewhat fragile. Yet, European identity is intertwined with national identities in manifold ways. The 'imagined communities' at the national and European level show strong similarities - criteria for being a European are strongly associated with the criteria used to define who national belonging. These complex links also manifest themselves in citizen's feelings of interdependence between the nations in the European Union - which, the volume suggests, support the EU in the face of severe crises. The IntUne series is edited by Maurizio Cotta (University of Siena) and Pierangelo Isernia (University of Siena). The INTUNE Project - Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an Ever Closer Europe - is one of the most recent and ambitious research attempts to empirically study how citizenship is changing in Europe. The book series is organized around the two main axes of the project, to report how the issues of identity, representation and standards of good governance are constructed and reconstructed at the elite and citizen levels, and how mass-elite interactions affect the ability of elites to shape identity, representation and the scope of governance. A first set of four books examines how identity, scope of governance and representation have been changing over time respectively at elites, media and public level. The next two books present cross-level analysis of European and national identity on the one hand and problems of national and European representation and scope of governance on the other, in doing so comparing data at both the mass and elite level. A concluding volume summarizes the main results, framing them in a wider theoretical context.

Author : Anne-Marie Thiesse
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004498839

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The Creation of National Identities by Anne-Marie Thiesse Pdf

From the barbarian epics to the ethnographic museums, from the national languages to emblematic landscapes or typical costumes, this book retraces the cultural fabrication of the European nations. National identities are not facts of nature, but constructions.

Author : Laura Rorato,Anna Saunders
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042025714

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The Essence and the Margin by Laura Rorato,Anna Saunders Pdf

With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions - and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary - the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe, which together suggest emerging patterns of identification within contemporary Europe - patterns which may not necessarily amount to a European 'identity', but rather to a European 'mode' of identification. The chronological structure of the volume demonstrates the increasingly problematic nature of national collective memories and past imaginaries in light of emergent marginal voices and images, and suggests that it is both from beyond and within the national paradigm that new challenges are now reshaping the cultural imaginary of European communities. Focusing on cultural images within film, literature, national narratives and myths, museum exhibitions and architecture, this volume is of interest to a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, and presents an interdisciplinary approach to questions of cultural memory and identity formation.

Author : Mikl¢s S?k”sd,Karol Jakubowicz
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789639776746

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Media, Nationalism and European Identities by Mikl¢s S?k”sd,Karol Jakubowicz Pdf

This volume brings together research contributions on the interface between media, identities and the public sphere in contemporary Europe. It contains information spanning theoretical insights and the elaboration of original case studies. Particularly welcome is the effort to bring together discussion on media industries and cultural identification and the experiences of East and West."-Paul Statham, Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol Mikl=s Snk÷sd is Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong. Karol Jakubowicz is Senior Adviser to the Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland.

Author : Willfried Spohn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351939911

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Entangled Identities by Willfried Spohn Pdf

Providing a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the way national and European identities are intertwined in old and new member states of the European Union, this volume assembles nine country case studies. Each country has experienced different processes of state formation, nation-building and democratization, thus they have each developed different forms of national identity and different patterns of interaction between national and European identities. The case studies illuminate the similarities and differences in how national and European identities have evolved among the nine countries. Rich in empirical data, the volume examines the historical entanglement of national and European collective identities and is therefore well suited for courses on European studies including European integration and enlargement, international relations and sociology.

Author : Hanspeter Kriesi
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1557533539

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Nation and National Identity by Hanspeter Kriesi Pdf

"The nation-state is challenged all over the world today. Regional movements, the reunification of separate territorial parts, the differentiation of formerly homogenous ethnic identities, the sequels of war, and the country-specific historical legacies present many different challenges for national identities and nationhood. The contributions in this volume constitute an attempt to put the many facets of the contemporary European experience into perspective."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Hanspeter Kriesi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Europe
ISBN : 3725306427

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Author : Lotte Jensen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048530649

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The roots of nationalism by Lotte Jensen Pdf

This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in the shaping of European nations in the period, while also offering an overview of current debates in the field and case studies on a number of topics, including literature, historiography, and cartography.

Author : W. Spohn,M. Koenig,W. Knöbl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230390775

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Religion and National Identities in an Enlarged Europe by W. Spohn,M. Koenig,W. Knöbl Pdf

This volume analyzes changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Examining elite discourse, media debates and public opinions across Europe over a decade, it explores how accelerated European integration and Eastern enlargement have affected religious markers of collective identity.

Author : Brian Jenkins,Spyros A. Sofos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134805808

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Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe by Brian Jenkins,Spyros A. Sofos Pdf

The resilience of nationalism in contemporary Europe may seem paradoxical at a time when the nation state is widely seen as being 'in decline'. The contributors of this book see the resurgence of nationalism as symptomatic of the quest for identity and meaning in the complex modern world. Challenged from above by the supranational imperatives of globalism and from below by the complex pluralism of modern societies, the nation state, in the absence of alternatives to market consumerism, remains a focus for social identity. Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe takes a fully interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the 'national question'. Individual chapters consider the specifics of national identity in France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Iberia, Russia, the former Yugoslavla and Poland, while looking also at external forces such as economic globalisation, European supranationalism, and the end of the Cold War. Setting current issues and conflicts in their broad historical context, the book reaffirms that 'nations' are not 'natural' phenomena but 'constructed' forms of social identity whose future will be determined in the social arena.

Author : Josep R. Llobera
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1845450426

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Foundations of National Identity by Josep R. Llobera Pdf

Since it emergence in the 19th century in response to feudalism, nationalism has been a mixed blessing. Originally seen as a positive force, often enough it has resulted in warfare and persecution of minorities, so much so that, over time, it has been considered a social evil whose apparent decline has been greeted as a positive development. The author disputes this or rather, he maintains that the picture that emerges is more complex: nationalism is not disappearing but has taken on a different form. What we are experiencing is an increasing autonomy of ethnonations, i.e. nations without a state, in the wake of a weakening of the multinational states and the transfer of their sovereignty upwards, in the case of Europe to the federation of the European Union, and downwards to the "ethnonations." Catalonia is the major case study in this book but it is embedded in a comprehensive theoretical framework as well as the historical and contemporary reality of Europe, opening up a new perspective. The author, one of the foremost scholars in this field, brilliantly succeeds in developing an original, clear and comprehensive vision of nationalism that is accessible to a wide readership.

Author : Anna Triandafyllidou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134517558

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Immigrants and National Identity in Europe by Anna Triandafyllidou Pdf

The author reviews main theories of nationalism and criticises their lack of elaboration on the role of 'Others' in nation formation. Drawing upon anthropological, sociological and social psychological perspectives, she develops a dynamic, relational perspective for the study of national theory.

Author : Lene Hansen,Ole Waever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134599165

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European Integration and National Identity by Lene Hansen,Ole Waever Pdf

The four Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway, have all held referenda on their relationship to the European Union in the 1990's. These referenda catalysed heated debates: should Finland and Sweden give up neutrality? Should Denmark follow the European Union's move towards higher degrees of integration? And, had there been enough change in Norway to reverse the rejection of European Community membership in 1972? These key questions about the future of European integration are addressed in this highly topical book by examining the crucial role played by national identity.

Author : Montserrat Guibernau
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745657158

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The Identity of Nations by Montserrat Guibernau Pdf

What is national identity? What are the main challenges posed to national identity by the strengthening of regional identities and the growth of cultural diversity? How is right-wing nationalism connected to the desire to preserve a traditional image of national identity? Can we forge a new kind of national identity that responds to the challenges of globalization and other deep-seated changes? In this important new book, Montserrat Guibernau answers these and other compelling questions about the future of national identity. For Guibernau, the nation-states traditional project to unify its otherwise diverse population by generating a shared sense of national identity among them was always contested, and was accomplished with various degrees of success in Europe and North America. Such processes involved the cultural and linguistic homogenization of an otherwise diverse citizenry and were pursued by different means according to the specific contexts within which they were applied. At present, the impact of strong structural socio-political and economic transformations has resulted in greater challenges being posed to the idea that all citizens of a state should share a homogeneous national identity. Diversity is increasing, and plans for further European integration contain the potential to generate significant tensions, casting greater doubt on the classical concept of national identity. As a result, we are faced with a set of new dilemmas concerning the way in which national identity is constructed and defined. The book offers a theoretical as well as a comparative approach, with case studies involving Austria, Britain, Canada and Spain, as well as the European Union and the United States of America. The Identity of Nations will be essential reading for advanced students and professional scholars in sociology, politics and international relations.