What Should Be Europe's Identity?: The Trials of Multiculturalism
Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 22, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781403975409
Subjects: Cultural studies; EU & European institutions; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; EU (European Union); International Relations - General; Political Science / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; Public Policy - Cultural Policy
Description: This book looks at the role of multiculturalism in the complex construction of the European Union, acknowledging the tension of creating a new political space for identities that are simultaneously national, regional, linguistic, and religious, and yet strive to encompass a political and geographic whole. The author investigates the difficulty of conjugating the complex, pluralistic sense of belonging that individuals and groups in the EU experience in efforts to form a cohesive political identity, and one that is expressly European.