1st Edition

Challenging Identities European Horizons

Edited By Peter Madsen Copyright 2017
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Identity is a keyword in a number of academic fields as well as in public debate and in politics. During the last decades, references to identity have proliferated, yet there is no simple definition available that corresponds to the use of the notion in all contexts. The significance of the notion depends on the conceptual or ideological constellation in which it takes part. This volume on one... Read more



Introduction: Discourses of Identity



[Peter Madsen]





Part I





1. Encyclopaedia Europaea: Some Preliminary Observations



[Gert Sørensen]





2. The Clash: Legal Culture, National Identity, and European Law



[Mikael Rask Madsen]





3. Staging Constitutional Identity: The Danish Play



[Henning Koch]





Part II





4. Jews in Vienna’s Golden Age: A Case Study in the Conceptual Difficulties Surrounding the Concept of Identity



[Allan Janik]





5. Spanish National Identity, Islam and Morocco: History and Historiography



[Manuela Marín]





6. Europe and Turkish Identity



[Çağlar Keyder]





7. Associations, Connections, Representatives: A Swedish Bosnian Muslim Community in a Transforming Urban Landscape



[Catharina Raudvere]





8. Intersectionality, Diversity and Gender: National and European Belongings



[Lise Rolandsen Agustín and Birte Siim]





Part III





9. Eastern Europe, Western Europe, New Europe, or Just Europe?: Changes of Identities in Post-Cold War Europe



[Barbara Törnquist-Plewa]





10. France and Germany: From Confrontation to Cooperation and Partnership in Europe



[Karl Christian Lammers]





11. The Impact of the New Nationalism and Identity Politics on Cultural Policy-Making in Europe and Beyond



[Peter Duelund]





12. Identity Politics in "The Global Art World"



[Anne Ring Petersen]





Part IV





13. The Identity Trap: Post-Conventional Identities



[Richard Wolin]





14. Human Genetic Identity



[Peter E. Nielsen]

Biography

Peter Madsen is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature in the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.