Discursive constructions of identity in European politics
By: edited by Richard C.M. Mole.
Contributors: Mole, Richard C. M., 1968-
Series: Language and globalization
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780230517066
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Europe; Nationalism -- Europe; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989-; Europe -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Europe -- Civilization -- 21st century
Notes: "This book aims to bring together specialists to discuss the discursive construction of identities and analyse the impact of specific identity discourses on various socio-political issues in Europe. While most analyses of the relationship between discourse and identity have been conducted by linguists and communications scholars, this volume seeks also to show how other disciplines (literature, media, sociology, conceptual history, politics and international relations in addition to critical discourse analysis and communications) examine the social construction of identity and meaning through discourse and their application to the study of European politics and society"--Introductory chapter.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Discursive identities/identity discourses and political power / Richard Mole; title: A discourse theory of ethnic identity / Don Ellis; title: The tale-end of history : literary form, historiography and the Danish (post)-national imagination / C. Claire Thomson; title: 'Doing Europe' : the discursive construction of European identities / Ruth Wodak; title: Shifting discourses : banal nationalism and cultural intimacy in Greek television news and everyday life / Mirca Madianou; title: The power of metaphor : consent, dissent and revolution / Erik Ringmar; title: Post-liberal anxieties and discourses of peoplehood in Europe : nationalism, xenophobia and racism / Gerard Delanty and Peter Millward; title: Talking security? : the discourse of European identity in the Baltic states / Richard Mole; title: It's about time : is Europe old or new? / Jan Ifversen; title: Narratives of security : strategy and identity in the European context / Felix Ciută; title: Conclusion : revisiting discourse, identity and 'Europe' / Richard Mole and Felix Ciută.