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Constructing Identities over Time

Author : Jekatyerina Dunajeva
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 963386416X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing Identities over Time by : Jekatyerina Dunajeva

Download or read book Constructing Identities over Time written by Jekatyerina Dunajeva and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jekatyerina Dunajeva explores how two dominant stereotypes—“bad Gypsies” and “good Roma”—took hold in formal and informal educational institutions in Russia and Hungary. She shows that over centuries “Gypsies” came to be associated with criminality, lack of education, and backwardness. The second notion, of proud, empowered, and educated “Roma,” is a more recent development. By identifying five historical phases—pre-modern, early-modern, early and “ripe” communism, and neomodern nation-building—the book captures crucial legacies that deepen social divisions and normalize the constructed group images. The analysis of the state-managed Roma identity project in the brief korenizatsija program for the integration of non-Russian nationalities into the Soviet civil service in the 1920s is particularly revealing, while the critique of contemporary endeavors is a valuable resource for policy makers and civic activists alike. The top-down view is complemented with the bottom-up attention to everyday Roma voices. Personal stories reveal how identities operate in daily life, as Dunajeva brings out hidden narratives and subaltern discourse. Her handling of fieldwork and self-reflexivity is a model of sensitive research with vulnerable groups.

The Discursive Construction of European Identities

Author : Michał Krzyżanowski
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631610466
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The Discursive Construction of European Identities by : Michał Krzyżanowski

Download or read book The Discursive Construction of European Identities written by Michał Krzyżanowski and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the discursive construction of European identities in a variety of institutional and non-institutional contexts and through a variety of social and political actors. Its multilevel and interdisciplinary approach - rooted in the Discourse-Historical tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis - allows for a comparison of identity constructions at different levels of Europe's social and political organisation and in different modes of communication. The book analyses discourses as diverse as those of the EU politicians, of Europe's national media as well as of migrants living in Europe. It offers a set of integrated models and analytical procedures which bring to the fore the inherent dynamism and complexity of both 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' European identity constructions.

Cultural Identity and Archaeology

Author : P. Graves-Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134683340
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultural Identity and Archaeology by : P. Graves-Brown

Download or read book Cultural Identity and Archaeology written by P. Graves-Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural identity is a key area of debate in contemporary Europe. Despite widespread use of the past in the construction of ethnic, national and European identity, theories of cultural identity have been neglected in archaeology. Focusing on the interrelationships between concepts of cultural identity today and the interpretation of past cultural groups, Cultural Identity and Archaeology offers proactive archaeological perspectives in the debate surrounding European identities. This fascinating and thought-provoking book covers three key areas. It considers how material remains are used in the interpretation of cultural identities, for example ‘pan-Celtic culture’ and ‘Bronze Age Europe’. Finally, it looks at archaeological evidence for the construction of cultural identities in the European past. The authors are critical of monolithic constructions of Europe, and also of the ethnic and national groups within it. in place of such exclusive cultural, political and territorial entities the book argues for a consideration of the diverse, hybrid and multiple nature of European cultural identities.

Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe

Author : Tiziana Banini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030667689
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe by : Tiziana Banini

Download or read book Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe written by Tiziana Banini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into the topic of place and territorial identity, which involves both the dimension of collective belonging and the politics of territorial planning and enhancement. It considers the social, economic and political effects of territorial identity representations among others in terms of mystification, spatial fetishism, and the creation of place and territorial stereotypes. A mixed methodology is employed to research case studies at diverse territorial scales which are relevant to the impact of a variety of factors on place/territorial identity processes such as migration, political and economic changes, natural disasters, land use changes, etc. Visual imagery, constructing visual discourses and living within visual cultures are placed in the foreground and refer to among others the changes and challenges introduced by the Internet and social networks in place/territory representations and self-representations; identity politics and its impact on place/territorial identity representations; discourses in shaping representations and self-representations of territorial/place-based identities related to collective memory, cultural heritage, invented tradition, imagined communities and other key notions.

Constructing the Limits of Europe

Author : Rumena Filipova
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838216490
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing the Limits of Europe by : Rumena Filipova

Download or read book Constructing the Limits of Europe written by Rumena Filipova and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study harks back to the revolutionary year of 1989 and asks two critical questions about the resulting reconfiguration of Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of communism: Why did Central and East European states display such divergent outcomes of their socio-political transitions? Why did three of those states—Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia—differ so starkly in terms of the pace and extent of their integration into Europe? Rumena Filipova argues that Poland’s, Bulgaria’s, and Russia’s dominating conceptions of national identity have principally shaped these countries’ foreign policy behavior after 1989. Such an explanation of these three nations’ diverging degrees of Europeanization stands in contrast to institutionalist-rationalist, interest-based accounts of democratic transition and international integration in post-communist Europe. She thereby makes a case for the need to include ideational factors into the study of International Relations and demonstrates that identities are not easily malleable and may not be as fluid as often assumed. She proposes a theoretical “middle-ground” argument that calls for “qualified post-positivism” as an integrated perspective that combines positivist and post-positivist orientations in the study of IR.

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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Book Synopsis European Identity by : Jeffrey T. Checkel

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.

Constructing Europe's Identity

Author : Lars-Erik Cederman
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555878726
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (787 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing Europe's Identity by : Lars-Erik Cederman

Download or read book Constructing Europe's Identity written by Lars-Erik Cederman and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors assess not only the benefits, but also the costs of attempts to assert a European identity. Referring to debates about the respective merits of deepening and widening, they address the equally important associated tradeoffs between exclusion and dilution: they point to the risks on the one hand of a Europe that excludes foreign goods, immigrants and entire countries, and on the other of an unfocused definition of Europe that may dilute the very values that a "European identity" is intended to protect.

Constructing the Person in EU Law

Author : Loïc Azoulai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178225935X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing the Person in EU Law by : Loïc Azoulai

Download or read book Constructing the Person in EU Law written by Loïc Azoulai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union places the 'individual' or person, 'at the heart of its activities'. It is a central concept in all of EU economics, politics, society and ethics. The 15 chapters in this innovative edited collection argue that EU law has had a transformative effect on this concept. The collection looks at the mechanisms used when 'constructing the person' in EU law. It goes beyond traditional literature on 'Europe and the Individual', exploring the question of personhood through critical and contextual perspectives. Constructing the Person in EU Law: Rights, Roles, Identities brings together contributions and debates from experts around Europe to this key question.

Identities in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Natalia Waechter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351206494
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Book Synopsis Identities in Central and Eastern Europe by : Natalia Waechter

Download or read book Identities in Central and Eastern Europe written by Natalia Waechter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous historical and political processes and dynamics have led to the emergence of ethnic minority groups in Central and Eastern Europe, each with its own long history and identity. The breakdown of the Soviet regime, the establishment of new nation-states, and the Eastern enlargement of the European Union have raised new questions for these ethnic groups, questions regarding their feelings of belonging and the main elements of their identity. In contrast to the common assumption that ethnic identities have become prevalent having been suppressed for a long time, this book provides empirical evidence that ethnic minorities typically relate to both their ethnic identity and to the national identity of their country of residence. The contributions reveal that the development and maintenance of ethnic, national and European identities are linked to the socio-economic situation and possible benefits for individuals, their countries, or their specific ethnic minority group. The book also highlights that national and European politics may contribute to ethnic and European identification, particularly in the fields of minority rights (e.g. language rights, voting rights) and integration policies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Identities journal.

Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Author : Meredith Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351576062
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Meredith Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.

The European Puzzle

Author : Marion Demossier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571816269
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis The European Puzzle by : Marion Demossier

Download or read book The European Puzzle written by Marion Demossier and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twin concepts of "Culture" and "Identity" are inescapable in any discussion of European Integration and yet over the last ten years their meaning has become increasingly contested. By combining an anthropological and political perspective, the authors challenge the traditional boundaries within the issue of the construction of Europe. In the first part, historians and anthropologists from various national traditions discuss the process of the construction of Europe and its implications for cultural identities. The second section examines a number of topics at the core of the process of Europeanization and presents up-to-date information on each of these issues: political parties, regions, football, cities, the Euro, ethnicity, heritage and European cinema. Emphasis is be placed on the political structuring of cultural identities by contrasting top-down and bottom-up processes that define the tensions between the unity and diversity of the European Community.

Identity and Migration in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Author : MariaCaterina La Barbera
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319101277
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity and Migration in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives by : MariaCaterina La Barbera

Download or read book Identity and Migration in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives written by MariaCaterina La Barbera and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the impact of migration on the formation and transformation of identity and its continuous negotiations. Its ground is the understanding of identity as a complex social phenomenon resulting from constant negotiations between personal conditions, social relationships, and institutional frameworks. Migrations, understood as dynamic processes that do not end when landing in the host country, offer the best conditions to analyze the construction and transformation of social identities in the postcolonial and globalized societies. Searching for novel epistemologies and methodologies, the research questions here addressed are how identity is negotiated in migration processes, and how these negotiations work in contemporary multiethnic Europe. This edited volume brings to the field a novel convergence of theoretical and empirical approaches by gathering together scholars from different countries of Europe and the Mediterranean area, from different disciplines and backgrounds, challenging the traditional discipline division.

Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363793
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on the problems of conceptualisation of social group identities, including national, royal, aristocratic, regional, urban, religious, and gendered communities. The geographical focus of the case studies presented in this volume range from Wales and Scotland, to Hungary and Ruthenia, while both narrative and other types of evidence, such as legal texts, are drawn upon. What emerges is how the characteristics and aspirations of communities are exemplified and legitimised through the presentation of the past and an imagined picture of present. By means of its multiple perspectives, this volume offers significant insight into the medieval dynamics of collective mentality and group consciousness. Contributors are Dániel Bagi, Mariusz Bartnicki, Zbigniew Dalewski, Georg Jostkleigrewe, Bartosz Klusek, Paweł Kras, Wojciech Michalski, Martin Nodl, Andrzej Pleszczyński, Euryn Rhys Roberts, Stanisław Rosik, Joanna Sobiesiak, Karol Szejgiec, Michał Tomaszek, Tomasz Tarczyński, Przemysław Tyszka, Tatiana Vilkul, and Przemysław Wiszewski.

Constructing Identities

Author : Mike Michael
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1849206643
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (492 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing Identities by : Mike Michael

Download or read book Constructing Identities written by Mike Michael and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-01-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a distinctive overview and analysis of the place of social constructionism in social psychology. The author′s arguments revolve around two key questions: How can social constructionism account for changes in human identities? In what ways might social constructionism accommodate a role for nonhumans - whether technological or `natural′ - in the constitution of identity? Michael locates these questions between recent innovations in social psychology and the highly influential contributions of actor-network theory, which has come to dominate the sociology of scientific knowledge.

European Identities in Discourse

Author : Franco Zappettini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350042994
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis European Identities in Discourse by : Franco Zappettini

Download or read book European Identities in Discourse written by Franco Zappettini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on empirical research, this book closely analyses how European identities are discursively produced. It focuses on discourse from members of a civic association active in promoting democracy and attempting participation in the transnational public sphere. Unlike previous books that have addressed the question of European identity from top-down stances or through methodological nationalism, this book engages with the multifaceted concept of transnationalism as a key to the negotiation of 'glocal' identities. Applying a discourse historical approach (DHA) through a transnational reading, it shows how grassroots actors/speakers construct their different cultural and political affiliations as both world and European citizens. They negotiate institutional identities and historical discourses of nationhood through new forms of mobility, cultural diversity and the imagination of Europe as a proxy for a cosmopolitan civil society. These discourses are ever more important in a fractured and polarised Europe falling prey to contrary discourses of nationhood and ethnic solidarity. Highlighting how transnational narratives of solidarity and the de-territorialisation of civic participation can impact on the (re)imagination of the European community beyond tropes like 'Fortress Europe' or intragovernmental politics, this important book shows how identification processes must be read through historical and global as well as localised contexts.

Transnational Identities

Author : Richard K. Herrmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461646367
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Identities written by Richard K. Herrmann and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original work explores the increasingly important phenomenon of the formation of transnational identity. Considering the ongoing relevance of the European Union, the contributors ask a series of intriguing questions: Is a European identity possible? How are the various types of European identity formed and maintained? How are these identities linked to the process of European integration? Examining the psychological, institutional, and political mechanisms that encourage or impede identification with transnational groups, the book considers these theoretical questions in light of new evidence drawn from a rich body of primary research, including field experiments, in-depth interviews with elites, and public opinion surveys. Brought together for the first time, social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and ethnographers share their theoretical and methodological perspectives in tackling the common issues surrounding the emergence of "European" as a political identity. Paying special attention to the role of the institutions of the EU, the authors investigate the impact of neo-functionalist strategies and find that the processes of identity formation are far more complicated than can be explained by material and institutional factors alone. The authors engage in a fruitful dialogue about how much a European identity exists and how much it matters as they delve into the sources of disagreement and their implications.

Architecture and Language

Author : Georgia Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521650786
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Language written by Georgia Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and Language examines one of the central themes in the history and theory of Western architecture. Seeking to understand how language provides a model for understanding architecture, the essays in this volume both celebrate the diversity of the language-architecture analogy and assess its theoretical implications in the light of the diverse historical circumstances that produced it. The chapters examine the connections between style and nationality, vernacular and "official" languages, the importance of Latin in giving the architectural profession a literate and cultured status, and the influence of architectural description on perception and design.