Dividing United Europe: From Crisis to Fragmentation?

ISBN-13: 9780367661144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 152 str.

Aline Sierp; Christian Karner

Opis

This book brings together scholars who examine the nexus between (economic) crisis, national identities and the use of historical images, prejudices and stereotypes by focusing particularly on media and political discourses in different European countries. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of National Identities.

Spis treści

Introduction: National stereotypes in the context of the European crisis  1. A Narrative Battle: Debating Finland’s EU policy during the Economic Crisis  2. ‘Between a Rock and A Hard Place’: Bulgarian Highly Skilled Migrants’ Experiences of External and Internal Stereotypes in the Context of the European Crisis  3. A nation under attack: Perceptions of victimhood and enmity in the context of the Greek crisis  4. Feeling the pulse of the Greek debt crisis: Affect on the web of blame  5. "The Germans are back": Euroscepticism and anti-Germanism in crisis-striken Greece  6. Pictorial stereotypes and images in the Euro debt crisis  7. Imag(in)ing the Eurocrisis: a comparative analysis of political cartoons  Epilogue

O autorze

Aline Sierp is Assistant Professor in European Studies at Maastricht University, Netherlands. Before joining Maastricht University, Aline Sierp worked as researcher at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. Her research interests cover collective memory, questions of identity and European integration. She is the author of History, Memory and Trans-European Identity: Unifying Divisions (Routledge, 2014) and the Founder and Co-President of the Memory Studies Association.

Christian Karner is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published widely within urban sociology, nationalism, and ethnicity studies. Christian has previously held a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship, and has been a research associate at the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA. His books include Ethnicity and Everyday Life (2007), Negotiating National Identities (2011), The Use and Abuse of Memory (2013), The Commonalities of Global Crises (2016), and National Identity and Europe in Times of Crisis (2017).