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Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe

Author : Brian Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134805802
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe written by Brian Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Media, Nationalism and European Identities

Author : Mikl¢s S?k”sd
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9639776742
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Media, Nationalism and European Identities written by Mikl¢s S?k”sd and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe

Author : Eric Langenbacher
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857455818
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Book Synopsis Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe by : Eric Langenbacher

Download or read book Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe written by Eric Langenbacher and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the past. The increasing dissatisfaction among scholars with the blanket, undifferentiated use of the term “collective memory” is evolving in new directions. This volume brings the tension into focus while addressing the state of memory theory itself.

Nation and National Identity

Author : Hanspeter Kriesi
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557533531
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Nation and National Identity written by Hanspeter Kriesi and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The roots of nationalism

Author : Lotte Jensen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048530644
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The roots of nationalism written by Lotte Jensen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe

Author : Huub van Baar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178920643X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe written by Huub van Baar and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of increasing anti-migrant and anti-Roma sentiment, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe. From backgrounds ranging from political theory, postcolonial, cultural and gender studies to art history, feminist critique and anthropology, the contributors reflect on the extent to which a politics of identity regarding historically disadvantaged, racialized minorities such as the Roma can still be legitimately articulated.

Foundations of National Identity

Author : Josep R. Llobera
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845450427
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of National Identity written by Josep R. Llobera and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Re-thinking Europe

Author : Nele Bemong
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 904202352X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Re-thinking Europe written by Nele Bemong and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collection turn to the past, in which Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dialogue with the present, in which Europe has increasingly become associated with a history of oppression and violence. The different essays together demonstrate how the idea of Europe cannot be thought apart from the tension between the regional and the global, between nationalism and pluralism, and can therefore be re-thought as an opportunity for an identity beyond national or ethnic borders. Engaging contemporary discourses on hybrid, postcolonial, and transnational identity, this volume shows how literature can function as both a vital tool to forge new identities and a power subversive of such attempts at identity-formation. Like Europe, it is always marked by the tension between integration and resistance. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of modern literature, comparative literature, and European studies, as well as people concerned with cultural memory and the relation between literature and cultural identity.

European Identity

Author : Jeffrey T. Checkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521883016
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book European Identity written by Jeffrey T. Checkel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious volume which asks why hopes are fading for a single European identity, despite decades of European integration.

Nations, Identity, Power

Author : George Schöpflin
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nations, Identity, Power written by George Schöpflin and published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In particular George Schopflin questions why states in the West are able to live with the nation as the legitimate space for democratic institutions, wheras in the post-communist world, especially in Eastern Europe, ethnicity is pre-eminent. He argues that the nation is simultaneously ethnic, civic and structured by the state.

The Creation of National Identities

Author : Anne-Marie Thiesse
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004498834
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Creation of National Identities written by Anne-Marie Thiesse and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Essence and the Margin

Author : Laura Rorato
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025719
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Essence and the Margin written by Laura Rorato and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

After Civil War

Author : Bill Kissane
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290305
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book After Civil War written by Bill Kissane and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil war inevitably causes shifts in state boundaries, demographics, systems of rule, and the bases of legitimate authority—many of the markers of national identity. Yet a shared sense of nationhood is as important to political reconciliation as the reconstruction of state institutions and economic security. After Civil War compares reconstruction projects in Bosnia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, and Turkey in order to explore how former combatants and their supporters learn to coexist as one nation in the aftermath of ethnopolitical or ideological violence. After Civil War synthesizes research on civil wars, reconstruction, and nationalism to show how national identity is reconstructed over time in different cultural and socioeconomic contexts, in strong nation-states as well as those with a high level of international intervention. Chapters written by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the relationships between reconstruction and reconciliation, the development of new party systems after war, and how globalization affects the processes of peacebuilding. After Civil War thus provides a comprehensive, comparative perspective to a wide span of recent political history, showing postconflict articulations of national identity can emerge in the long run within conducive institutional contexts. Contributors: Risto Alapuro, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Chares Demetriou, James Hughes, Joost Jongerden, Bill Kissane, Denisa Kostovicova, Michael Richards, Ruth Seifert, Riki van Boeschoten.

Germany, Europe and the Persistence of Nations

Author : Stephen Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429850875
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Germany, Europe and the Persistence of Nations written by Stephen Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, this book is an articulate and densely documented account of political, cultural and historical forces and tensions involved in contemporary European integration; most especially concerning Germany. In doing so it provides an effective fusion of a vast array of material from what are normally separate disciplines. The book investigates contemporary resonances of identifications and conceptions of political boundaries that appeared in Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. It argues that within a ‘supranationalising’ Europe, national identity and nationalism have not disappeared as cultural and political phenomena. Rather they persist and manifest themselves in variable forms at popular and elite levels. This is the basis for Europe’s condition of far from completed unity, at the centre of which is now a reunited Germany, more sure of itself but less sure of the world around it.

Nationalism and Territory

Author : George W. White
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847698097
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Nationalism and Territory written by George W. White and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do nations come into conflict? What factors lead to the horrors of ethnic cleansing? This timely book offers clear-eyed answers to these questions by exploring how national identity is shaped by place, focusing especially on Serbia, Hungary, and Romania. Moving beyond studies of nationalism that consider only the economic and geostrategic value of territory, George W. White shows that the very core of national identity is intimately bound to specific places. Indeed, nations define themselves in terms of spaces that have historical, linguistic, and religious meaning, as Serbs have clearly demonstrated in Kosovo. These territories are concrete expressions of a nationAIs identity, both past and present. With his detailed analysis of the places that define national identity in Southeastern Europe, White convincingly shows why territorial disputes so often escalate into war.

Modern Europe

Author : Brian Graham
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 : 9780340676981
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Modern Europe written by Brian Graham and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1998 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the apparent paradox between Europe's ongoing plans for integration, and the continent's enduring cultural, political, and economic diversity. Looking at contemporary issues and setting them in a historical context, the contributors show how this diversity has always been a principle characteristic of European society, and discuss the ways in which nationalism and the nation-state emerged as one means of controlling that heterogeneity. They go on to argue that identity in modern Europe is again becoming multi-faceted, proposing that the continent's geographies can be defined only through inclusivist multiculturalism.

Multiplicity of Nationalism in Contemporary Europe

Author : Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739123072
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Multiplicity of Nationalism in Contemporary Europe written by Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism remains one of the key political, societal, and sociopsychological phenomena in contemporary Europe. Its significance for the justification of state policies and the stability of political systems, particularly in the context of advanced democracies, and its significance for people's basic needs for a political and cultural identity and a sense of national pride continue to challenge scholars. The international scholars assembled in this edited collection suggest that the use of three perspectives--supranationalism, boundary-making nationalism, and regional nationalism--may be promising as an explanatory framework for the analysis of nationalism in Europe. The book's contributors distance themselves from older dichotomies such as civic and ethnic nationalism and questions the one-sided normativity of nationalism, in particular in the concept of liberal nationalism. It argues that a promising approach to contemporary nationalism should reflect the multiplicity of nationalism. The volume is a collection of studies by a multinational group of authors with backgrounds in Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Ukraine and the United States.