The Evolution of European Identities: Biographical Approaches (Identities and Modernities in Europe) - Hardcover

Day, Graham; Miller, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230302564 ISBN 13: 9780230302563

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

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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SALLY BAKER Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Bangor University, UK HOWARD DAVIS Professor of Social Theory and Institutions in the School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK GRAHAM DAY Head of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK MARKIETA DOMECKA Research Assistant in the Department of Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK MARIANA DRAGANOVA Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria MARTA EICHSTELLER Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK LENA INOWLOCKI Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany RUMIANA JELEVA Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, Bulgaria SLAVKA KARAKUSHEVA PhD student at Sofia University, Bulgaria KAJA KA?MIERSKA Professor of Sociology at University of Lodz, Poland PASQUALE MUSELLA Researcher at University of Naples Federico II, Italy ULRIKE NAGEL Associate Professor of Microsociology at the University of Magdeburg, Germany LIIS OJAMÄE Associate Professor at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia KATRIN PAADAM Professor of Sociology at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia ELISABETTA PERONE PhD student at University of Naples Federico II, Italy DONA PICKARD Doctoral student at theInstitute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria ANDRZEJ PIOTROWSKI Professor of Sociology at University of Lodz, Poland GERHARD RIEMANN Professor of Social Work at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg, Germany ANJA SCHRÖDER-WILDHAGEN Research Assistant at the University of Magdeburg, Germany DIRK SCHUBOTZ Research Fellow with ARK, a joint project of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster, UK FRITZ SCHÜTZE was Chair of General Sociology/Microsociology at the University of Magdeburg, Germany KRISTEL SIILAK Lecturer at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia ANTONELLA SPANÒ Professor of Sociology at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy MARUSKA SVASEK Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast, UK BÄRBEL TREICHEL Visiting Professor at the University of Erfurt, Germany KATARZYNA WANIEK Lecturer in the Department of Sociology of Culture, University of Lodz, Poland

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230302564
• ISBN 13: 9780230302563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 321