Meanings of Europe

Claudia Wiesner is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Finnish Research Centre in Political Thought and Conceptual Change, Jyväskylä.  Meike Schmidt-Gleim is Director of the research project “Atlas of Arcadia” at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.

• The Meanings of Europe: Introduction Meike Schmidt-Gleim and Claudia Wiesner Part I: Meanings of Europe 1. The Plural Meanings of Europe: A Historical Task Nere Basabe 2. Europe and the Spectre of the Barbarian Meike Schmidt-Gleim 3. In the Grip of Marranism: The Other Within Europe´s Multiple Modernities Paola Ferruta 4. "In Europe There Are Positions to Defend": The 1930s and Walter Benjamin’s Jewish Ark Marc Berdet 5. Parliamentarism as a European Type of Polity: Constructing the Presidentialism Versus Parliamentarism Divide in Walter Bagehot’s English Constitution Kari Palonen Part II: Europe and the EU 6. From Safeguarding Peace in Europe to Financial Crisis: Old Questions and New Challenges of European Integration Claudia Wiesner 7. The Symbolical Revocation of Symbolism: The Lisbon Treaty Hans Lietzmann 8. The Paradoxes of a European Citizenship Helmut Dubiel 9. Constructing Europe as an Area via EU Documents on Citizenship and Culture Katja Mäkinen 10. Assigning Meaning to (EU-)Europe Through Cultural Policy: European Capitals of Culture Emilia Palonen 11. Euro-Zone Crisis and Parliamentary Democracy: Lessons from the Greek Case Anthoula Malkopoulou Part III: Europeanness and Non-Europeanness 12. Scenes of Voting: Reactions to the Swiss Referendum on the Ban on the Construction of Minarets (2009) in Switzerland and Germany Andreas Langenohl 13. Translating Citizenship: On Some Pitfalls and the Politics of Meaning in the Definition of "Europeanness" Stefan Nowotny 14. "Wherever You Go, You Will Be the Polis": Europe Without Borders Tuija Parvikko 15. Shaping New Russian Identity: Discourses of "Inclusion/Exclusion in Europe" Galina Zvereva 16. Europe’s Ends Kalypso Nicolaidis