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WP8 Publication: European Identities
Edited by Claire Wallace and Kristin Strømsnes
The widening and deepening of European integration in the last few decades has increased people’s awareness of Europe. However, despite the political and administrative integration of the European area, there is not yet a widespread sense of being European. In the words of Jacques Delors, paraphrasing the architects of Italian unification: “We have created Europe, now we must create Europeans!” For this reason, we were interested to explore the notion of European Identity. There are increasing numbers of articles addressed to this issue, but many of them at a high level of abstraction, representing normative views of European identity rather than evidence for how this works. Hence, there is a real lack of concrete knowledge about feelings of belonging to Europe among Europeans. This volume aims to remedy this lack of knowledge by bringing together a group of cross-disciplinary papers to explore various aspects of European identity.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Claire Wallace and Kristin Strømsnes
Chapter 2: European Identity: Normative Approaches
Florian Pichler
Chapter 3: Social Structural Differences in Identification with Europe
Florian Pichler
Chapter 4: Waiting for a European Identity… Preliminary Thoughts about the Identification Process with Europe
Sophie Duchesne
Chapter 5: The Idea of Europe. Historical and Intellectual Foundations in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Czech Republic
Jiří Musil
Chapter 6: European Identities from below: meanings of Identification with Europe
Florian Pichler
Chapter 7: The “institutionally constructed” European identity: citizenship and public sphere narrated by the Commission
Cristiano Bee
Chapter 8: Lost in Translation? European Integration and Language Diversity
Jan Erik Grindheim and Terje Lohndal
Chapter 9: What part does Europe play in the identity building of young European adults?
Klaus Boehnke and Daniel Fuss
Chapter 10: What leads young people to identify with Europe? An exploration of the impact of exposure to Europe and political engagement on European identity among young Europeans
Reingard Spannring, Claire Wallace and Georg Datler
Chapter 11: The distinguishing function of European identity: Attitudes towards and visions of Europe and the European Union among young Scottish adults
Christopher Thorpe
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