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An Anthropology of the European Union Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe

216 Pages

by Routledge

216 Pages

by Routledge

216 Pages

by Routledge

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One of the problems facing Europe is that the building of institutional Europe and top-down efforts to get Europeans to imagine their common identity do not necessarily result in political and cultural unity. Anthropologists have been slow to consider the difficulties presented by the expansion of the EU model and its implications for Europe in the 21st Century. Representing a new trend in... Read more

Part I Institutions, Politics and Society at the Core of the European Union 2 Virtual Europe 3 The European Union, Identity Politics and the Logic of Interests' Representation 4 Debating Europe: Globalization Rhetoric and European Union Unemployment Policies 5 Surrogate Discourses of Power: The European Union and the Problem of Society Part II Belonging and Identity in the European Union 6 European Citizenship, Citizens of Europe and European Citizens 7 Agendas in Conflict: Nation, State and Europe in the Northern Ireland Borderlands 8 Not Simple At All: Danish Identity and the European Union 9 Boundaries at Work: Discourses and Practices of Belonging in the European Space Agency