Imagining Europe Memory Visions And Counter Narratives

Author : Lars Klein
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
ISBN 13 : 3863952324
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Europe: Memory, Visions, and Counter-Narratives written by Lars Klein and published by Göttingen University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of the so-called ‘economic and financial crisis’ from 2008 onwards, there has been a fierce debate about the role and purpose of the European Union. It was led in politics and the media just as in academia. The economic usefulness of the Euro has been discussed, and the political implications of a fostered European unification. Most often, the state of Europeanization has been presented as being without alternatives: no Europe without Greece; no Euro without Greece; no way back to the nation state in its old form. As a result, the debate on Europe was largely narrowed down to the very questions of the immediate crisis, namely economics and fi nance. Only a few voices held that the crisis in fact was one of politics, not of economics. And only late did politicians mention again that Europe is more than the EU. Alternative views of Europe, however, were scarce and often presented full of consequences. It thus came without much surprise that the lacking imaginative power of politicians as well as intellectuals was criticized. The idea for this volume sprang from that situation. The editors invited scholars from various disciplines to present them with ways of imagining Europe that go beyond the rather limited view of EU institutions. How was, how is Europe imagined? Which memories are evoked, which visions explicated? Which counter-narratives to prominent discourses are there?

Author : Lars Klein
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Download or read book Imagining Europe: Memory, Visions, and Counter-Narratives written by Lars Klein and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of the so-called 'economic and financial crisis' from 2008 onwards, there has been a fierce debate about the role and purpose of the European Union. It was led in politics and the media just as in academia. The economic usefulness of the Euro has been discussed, and the political implications of a fostered European unification. Most often, the state of Europeanization has been presented as being without alternatives: no Europe without Greece; no Euro without Greece; no way back to the nation state in its old form. As a result, the debate on Europe was largely narrowed down to the very questions of the immediate crisis, namely economics and fi nance. Only a few voices held that the crisis in fact was one of politics, not of economics. And only late did politicians mention again that Europe is more than the EU. Alternative views of Europe, however, were scarce and often presented full of consequences. It thus came without much surprise that the lacking imaginative power of politicians as well as intellectuals was criticized. The idea for this volume sprang from that situation. The editors invited scholars from various disciplines to present them with ways of imagining Europe that go beyond the rather limited view of EU institutions. How was, how is Europe imagined? Which memories are evoked, which visions explicated? Which counter-narratives to prominent discourses are there?

Author : Mano Toth
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030798437
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Memory and Conflicting Visions of the Past written by Mano Toth and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses a number of ways in which the dialogue about Europe’s past and future could be rendered more inclusive, such as the promotion of critical and sentimental education and the creation of virtual and actual social spaces in which citizens and organised identity groups can participate. The discussion about European memory is far from being a “merely” symbolic issue with no political consequences. Imagining Europe and its past in different ways will lead to different real political outcomes. For instance, thinking about European integration as an embodiment of the values of the Enlightenment (such as human rights, liberal democracy, and reason), as a guarantor of peace on the continent, as a guarantor of prosperity, or as a guarantor that massive human rights violations like genocide will “never again” be committed on its soil, all entail different political objectives. Similarly, conflicting understandings of European memory as either a thing or a social construct, as either one memory or a plurality of memories, as either the end point of deliberation or a dialogical process, represent not merely inconsequential cultural “froth on the tides of society,” but crucially important issues with real political consequences. The book is intended to contribute to this discussion about the common European approach to the past (and thus to the future).

Author : Christiane Dienel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000926761
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Higher Education and Strengthening the European Spirit written by Christiane Dienel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called Bologna process is one of the most disputed and influential long-term policy changes the European Union has ever succeeded to start. It has harmonized European higher education systems and, at the same time, deeply changed concepts about what the core of Europeanness is. This book discusses various aspects of this transformative and influential “soft policy” process. The Bologna process, initiated over 20 years ago, confronts us with fundamental questions about the European integration process that is facing the greatest challenge in its history to date. The goal was to increase the comparability and competitiveness of European higher education structures, their quality and outcomes. But how successful was this endeavour? This book discusses different aspects of this reform, national interests, globalization trends, competition and cooperation within higher education and the influences of harmonization on the Europeanness of the young generation. Globalizing Higher Education and Strengthening the European Spirit will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Education, Education Policy, Social Sciences, and European Studies. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.

Author : Chiara Bottici
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107015618
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Europe written by Chiara Bottici and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory.

Author : Sabine Selchow
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Negotiations of the "New World" written by Sabine Selchow and published by Transcript Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book I develop the argument that the omnipresence of the contemporaryadjective global is more than a linguistic curiosity. I argue it is a politicalphenomenon and, as such, a valuable, albeit 'unconventional', object ofstudy for scholars outside the linguistics discourse. I argue that the omnipresenceof the contemporary adjective global constitutes the discursive reproductionof a web of meanings that is best labelled 'new world'. As such, the omnipresence of the contemporary adjective global constitutes a distinctdimension of the enduring contestation over the construction of the world. Given the word's current popularity and unscrutinised existence, as well asthe loaded nature of the web of meanings 'new world' that it brings out, Iargue, this dimension is not just a minor matter but plays an important, hence, research-worthy role in the contemporary symbolic struggle over theworld. My conceptualisation of the omnipresence of the contemporary adjectiveglobal as the re-production of a web of meanings 'new world' is groundedin two central insights that arise from my empirical engagement with the adjectiveglobal. The first of these two insights is the empirically groundedunderstanding that the contemporary adjective global is closely enmeshedwith the talk about (different ideas associated with the word) globalisation; Icall this talk 'globalisation'-discourse. As I demonstrate, the contemporary adjective global has come to be used in the sense of 'outcome of globalisation'. This makes the adjective a 'new word'. What is 'new' about the contemporaryglobal, I argue, is that it implies ideas that are associated with theword globalisation. I develop my argument that the contemporary adjectiveglobal is best be taken as a 'new word' by building on relevant discussionsamong lexicographers about when a word is appropriately called 'new', aswell as by drawing on a theory of language and meaning, according towhich language and meaning are not natural and referential but conventional and 'productive'. The second central insight that arises from my empirical engagementwith the contemporary global and that underlies my conceptualisation of theomnipresence of global as the re-production of a web of meanings 'newworld' refers to the word globalisation. It is the insight that all utterances, which contain the word globalisation, can be seen as constituting a discursivere-production of an object that is best labelled 'new world'. In other words, my conceptualisation of the omnipresence of global builds on myunderstanding that what all uses of the word globalisation have in common- despite and in addition to the myriad of meanings that are associated withthis word in whichever context it is used - is that they imply the 'proclamation'of a 'new world that came'. This insight makes what I call 'globalisation'-discourse different fromexisting conceptualisations under this label, such as the one by Hay andSmith (2005). Normally, the 'globalisation'-discourse is conceptualisedbased on a scholarly preconception of what the word globalisation refers to, such as market integration or the spread of neoliberalism. In contrast, mysuggestion that we understand the uses of the word globalisation as a discursivere-production of a web of meanings that is best called 'new world' isgrounded in an approach that takes the polysemy of the word globalisationseriously. In addition, it builds on an elaboration of the question how andwhen the concept/s 'globalisation' and the neologism globalisation came tobe "in the true" (Foucault 1981: 61), i.e. became socially accepted and'normal' tools to grasp the world. As I discuss in this book, developments, which have come to be addressedwith the word globalisation, existed before this neologism becamepopular at the end of the 1980s and in the course of the 1990s. Given thatmeaning is not inherent in social reality but conventional, the question arises, why a new word was perceived to be needed and accepted at the end ofthe 1980s and 1990s, i.e. at that particular moment in time. My answer tothis question is that this was because the end of the Cold War was perceivedto have brought out a 'new world', for which existing conceptual tools wereperceived to be inadequate. This 'new world' was perceived as having produceda conceptual vacuum. This is apparent in assessments, such as that ofIR theorist James N. Rosenau (1990: 5), who argued after the end of theCold War that observers were left "without any paradigms or theories thatadequately explain the course of events". I argue, it was this perceived vacuumthat opened the discursive door and let the concept/s 'globalisation'and the neologism globalisation step in to fill it. Consequently, the use ofthe word globalisation can be conceptualised as re-producing and filling theconceptual space 'new world' with meaning. It is the synthesis of these two insights that allows me to conceptualisethe omnipresence of the contemporary adjective global as a distinct phenomenon, namely, as a discursive re-production of a web of meanings called'new world'. This phenomenon, I argue in this book, is relevant and interestingin two respects

Author : James H. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462096562
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation written by James H. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the shifting portrayal of the nation in school textbooks in 14 countries during periods of rapid political, social, and economic change. Drawing on a range of analytic strategies, the authors examine history and civics textbooks, and the teaching of such texts, along with other prominent curricular materials—children’s readers, a required text penned by the head of state, a holocaust curriculum, etc.. The authors analyze the uses of history and pedagogy in building, reinforcing and/or redefining the nation and state especially in the light of challenges to its legitimacy. The primary focus is on countries in developing or transitional contexts. Issues include the teaching of democratic civics in a multiethnic state with little history of democratic governance; shifts in teaching about the Khmer Rouge in post-conflict Cambodia; children’s readers used to define national space in former republics of the Soviet Union; the development of Holocaust education in a context where citizens were both victims and perpetuators of violence; the creation of a national past in Turkmenistan; and so forth. The case studies are supplemented by commentary, an introduction and conclusion.

Author : Ines Peper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110649292
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central European Pasts written by Ines Peper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Präsentationsvideo (4. Folge der Reihe 'ÖGE18 Update') Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, the competitive comparison of Ancients and Moderns and their respective relations to civilization and barbarism constituted one of the formative discourses. Yet alternative ideas of time and historicity are encountered not only in cultural contexts outside of Europe but also in the largely forgotten professional knowledge of the Old World: Thomism, Peripatetism, moderate forms of criticism, political theory, and legal practice. This book introduces a broad panorama of such intellectual cultures in Central Europe. It situates theological, historical, and philosophical scholarship in its institutional and epistemological environments: the Church, the Holy Roman Empire, and the emerging Habsburg Monarchy. In doing so, it identifies struggles over competing pasts – Christian, ethnic, legal – as the core of those domains' intellectual development.

Author : Lene Østermark-Johansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192674692
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walter Pater's European Imagination written by Lene Østermark-Johansen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Pater's European Imagination addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature. Pater's short pieces of fiction, the so-called 'imaginary portraits', trace the development of the European self over a period of some two thousand years. They include elements of travelogue and art criticism, together with discourses on myth, history, and philosophy. Examining Pater's methods of composition, use of narrative voice, and construction of character, the book draws on all of Pater's oeuvre and includes discussions of a range of his unpublished manuscripts, essays, and reviews. It engages with Pater's dialogue with the visual portrait and problematises the oscillation between type and individual, the generic and the particular, which characterises both the visual and the literary portrait. Exploring Pater's involvement with nineteenth-century historiography and collective memory, the book positions Pater's fiction solidly within such nineteenth-century genres as the historical novel and the Bildungsroman, while also discussing the portraits as specimens of biographical writing. As the 'Ur-texts' from which generations of modernist life-writing developed, Pater's 'imaginary portraits' became pivotal for such modernist writers as Virginia Woolf and Harold Nicolson. Walter Pater's European Imagination explores such twentieth-century successors, together with French contemporaries like Sainte-Beuve and followers like Marcel Schwob.