Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics

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.

'The volume provides important critical theoretical insights into the state of the art of the problematic identity concept in social sciences.' Bo Strath, Nations and Nationalism '...the text as a whole is incisive, carefully argued, and informative.' - Jeff Noonan, The European Legacy

• List of Diagrams Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Discursive Identities/Identity Discourses and Political Power; R.C.M.Mole PART 1: DISCOURSE AND IDENTITY A Discourse Theory of Ethnic Identity; D.Ellis The Discursive Construction of European Identities; R.Wodak The Tale-End of History: Literary Form, Historiography and the Danish (Post)-National Imagination; C.C.Thomson 'Doing Europe': The Discursive Construction of European Identities; R.Wodak Shifting Discourses: Banal Nationalism and Cultural Intimacy in Greek Television News and Everyday Life; M.Madianou PART 2: DISCOURSE, IDENTITY AND POLITICS The Power of Metaphor: Consent, Dissent and Revolution; E.Ringmar Post-Liberal Anxieties and Discourses of Peoplehood in Europe: Nationalism, Xenophobia and Racism; G.Delanty & P.Millward Talking Security? The Discourse of European Identity in the Baltic States; R.C.M.Mole It's About Time - is Europe Old or New?; J.Ifversen Narratives of Security: Strategy and Identity in the European Context; F.Ciuta Conclusion: Revisiting Discourse, Identity and 'Europe'; R.C.M.Mole & F.Ciuta References Index