Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics

by Mole, Richard C. M.

• ISBN13: 9780230517066
• ISBN10: 0230517064
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book examines the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyses how specific industry discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.

Author Biography

RICHARD C. M. MOLE is Lecturer in the Politics of Central Europe at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK. Prior to taking up this lectureship, he was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at UCL. He is author of the forthcoming The Baltic States. From the Soviet Union to the European Union.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Discursive Identities/Identity Discourses and Political Power	p. 1
Discourse and Identity
A Discourse Theory of Ethnic Identity	p. 25
The Tale-End of History: Literary Form, Historiography and the Danish (Post)-National Imagination	p. 45
'Doing Europe': the Discursive Construction of European Identities	p. 70
Shifting Discourses: Banal Nationalism and Cultural Intimacy in Greek Television News and Everyday Life	p. 95
Discourse, Identity and Politics
The Power of Metaphor: Consent, Dissent and Revolution	p. 119
Post-Liberal Anxieties and Discourses of Peoplehood in Europe: Nationalism, Xenophobia and Racism	p. 137
Talking Security? The Discourse of European Identity in the Baltic States	p. 149
It's About Time: is Europe Old or New?	p. 170
Narratives of Security: Strategy and Identity in the European Context	p. 190
Conclusion: Revisiting Discourse, Identity and 'Europe'	p. 208
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 233
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