Collective memory and European identity : the effects of integration and enlargement / edited by Klaus Eder, Willfried Spohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eder, Klaus, 1946-

Spohn, Willfried, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, European.

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

International economic integration--Social aspects--Europe.

International economic integration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Is it possible to create a collective European identity? In this volume, leading scholars assess the link between collective identity construction in Europe and the multiple memory discourses that intervene in this construction process. The authors believe that the exposure of national collective memories to an enlarging communicative space within Europe affects the ways in which national memories are framed. Through this perspective, several case studies of East and West European memory discourses are presented. The first part of the volume elaborates how collective memory can be identified in the new Europe. The second part presents case studies on national memories and related collective identities in respect of European integration and its extension to the East. This timely work is the first to investigate collective identity construction on a pan-European scale and will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students of political sociology and European studies.

Contents:

pt. I. Collective identities in Europe and European identities

pt. II. Europe, national identities and collective memory in Western Europe

pt. III. Europe, national identities and collective memory in Eastern Europe.

Notes:

First published 2005 by Ashgate.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-95059-2

1-315-25995-8

OCLC:

965773947