The Evolution of European Identities [electronic resource] : Biographical Approaches /
Day, Graham.author.
Miller, Robert.author.
The 'European project' is in a state of perpetual crisis in which the root cause is a lack of identification by ordinary citizens with Europe and European institutions. The Evolution of European Identities employs state of the art analysis of in-depth interviews by renowned practitioners to give a unique 'bottoms up' perspective on the development (or its lack) of a sense of 'European mental space'. Linking conceptual findings with case studies, the book provides unique insights into groups that have been especially sensitized by their life experiences to question what it means to be European in the twenty-first century. The groups explored in this book include: adults who experienced European education exchanges when young; transnational workers; civil society organization activists; persons involved in cross-border intimate relationships; farmers who are subject to European markets, regulations and subsidies; and migrants into 'fortress Europe'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Dimensions for the expression of European identity -- Method in practice : autobiographical narrative interviews in search of European phenomena -- International education in the life course -- Identity project under construction : European identity and educational mobility in Majka's case study -- Transnational work in the biographical experiences of traditional professions and corporate executives : analysis of two cases -- Farmers : more and less Europeans -- "Europe" as hope : a farmer's viewpoint from Bulgaria -- Exploring european "potential space" : a study of the biographies of former foreign exchange students -- Discoverers in European mental space : the biographical experiences of participants in European civil society organisations -- Miriam, an environmental activist -- Into and out of Europe : dynamic insider/outsider perspectives -- Europe out of Europe: the view from the other side of the world : the case of Matt -- Cross-cultural exchanges : intimate relationships and transforming societies -- Cross-cultural couples in the old and new Europe : from bi-localism to emotional transnationalism -- European mental space and its biographical relevance.
The 'European project' is in a state of perpetual crisis in which the root cause is a lack of identification by ordinary citizens with Europe and European institutions. The Evolution of European Identities employs state of the art analysis of in-depth interviews by renowned practitioners to give a unique 'bottoms up' perspective on the development (or its lack) of a sense of 'European mental space'. Linking conceptual findings with case studies, the book provides unique insights into groups that have been especially sensitized by their life experiences to question what it means to be European in the twenty-first century. The groups explored in this book include: adults who experienced European education exchanges when young; transnational workers; civil society organization activists; persons involved in cross-border intimate relationships; farmers who are subject to European markets, regulations and subsidies; and migrants into 'fortress Europe'.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Social policy.
Europe-Politics and government.
Ethnology-Europe.
European Union.
Comparative politics.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social Policy.
European Politics.
European Culture.
European Union Politics.
Comparative Politics.