Political Symbols, Symbolic Politics

The authors address the topic of European unity and/or fragmentation from the vantage point of cultural and symbolic tension. Thus it examines the figurations of the symbolic politics employed by proponents of integration, and the political symbolics of nation-states and national identities. Where the former more often than not is a question of propagating discourses of cultural and historical unity trying to embed them in popular ways of reading the world, the latter is still charged with more affective and immediate significance for most Europeans.

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Part 1 Symbolizing Europe through culture: redefining political culture in Europe today - from ideology to the politics of identity and beyond, Gerard Delanty; obstacles and prospects for a European collective identity and citizenship, Oliver Schmidtke; national and European identities between myths and realities, Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia. Part 2 Symbolizing nations through Europe: Europe and identity - a challenge for the social sciences, Celine Belot and Andy Smith; Europe as a discursive resource for Spanish national identity, Alberto Rosa, Florentino Blanco, Felix Diaz and Raquel de Castro; symbolic policies and 'rational' national interests - explaining the crisis of European integration in 1965/66, Ingmar von Homeyer; reconstructing French identity in the 1980s and the 1990s, Mette Zolner; sovereignty and European integration form a Scandinavian perspective, Ulf Hedetoft. Part 3 Symbolizing Europe through the other, the other through Europe: European identity and the challenge form South and East, Adam Burgess; constructing Europe - Russia as Europe's other, Iver B. Neumann; communication, cultural identity and the state in Latin America - a perspective from Europe, Philip Schlesinger and Nancy Morris.

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