European identities in discourse : a transnational citizens' perspective / Franco Zappettini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zappettini, Franco, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Europe.

Discourse analysis.

Transnationalism.

Ethnicity--Europe.

Ethnicity.

Europe.

National characteristics, European.

Nationalism--Europe.

Nationalism.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

Based on empirical research, this book closely analyses how European identities are discursively produced. It focuses on discourse from members of a civic association active in promoting democracy and attempting participation in the transnational public sphere. Unlike previous books that have addressed the question of European identity from top-down stances or through methodological nationalism, this book engages with the multifaceted concept of transnationalism as a key to the negotiation of `glocal' identities. Applying a discourse historical approach (DHA) through a transnational reading, it shows how grassroots actors/speakers construct their different cultural and political affiliations as both world and European citizens. They negotiate institutional identities and historical discourses of nationhood through new forms of mobility, cultural diversity and the imagination of Europe as a proxy for a cosmopolitan civil society. These discourses are ever more important in a fractured and polarised Europe falling prey to contrary discourses of nationhood and ethnic solidarity. Highlighting how transnational narratives of solidarity and the de-territorialisation of civic participation can impact on the (re)imagination of the European community beyond tropes like 'Fortress Europe' or intragovernmental politics, this important book shows how identification processes must be read through historical and global as well as localised contexts.

Contents:

Introduction

2. Exploring identities in discourse: Conceptual tools

3. Unpacking transnationalism

4. Operationalizing the methodological approach

5. Results

6. Discussing and summarising the findings

7. Conclusions

8. Bibliography

9. Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Zappettini, Franco, author. European identities in discourse

ISBN:

9781350042988

1350042986

OCLC:

1041903559