New Europe: Imagined Spaces

ISBN-13: 9781138178465 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 216 str.

Donald McNeill

Opis

New Europe: Imagined Spaces traces the radical transformation of European places and spaces over the last two decades. Instead of the familiar 'schoolbook' map of a Europe of nation-states, the book unpacks the differing imaginations of European identity in recent years. Taking as its central problem the fluid nature of cultural and political identity, it moves firmly away from - and calls into question - the perspective of the nation-state as the primary source of imagined identity for Europeans.



The book contributes to key debates, such as the emerging Europe of the Regions and the return of the city-state, examines the 'rebranding' of the nation-state and explores the impact of 'Europeanisation' on existing place identity. Emphasising mobility and movement, the chapters explore borderlands and travel, and also include a detailed discussion of the 'everyday life' of Europeans. Throughout, iconic images of contemporary Europe are invoked: Eurodisney, the Reichstag, Barcelona's Ramblas and the Bilbao Guggenheim, and the way in which mundane artefacts and practices such as football, walking, cars, food, passports and the Euro help construct identity is considered.



New Europe: Imagined Spaces adopts a multidisciplinary approach to studying Europe, providing students with an exploration of contemporary European space and place identity.

Recenzje

This book tackles exactly the issues we explore!
Dr M Kneafsey, Coventry University, UK

An excellent 'alternative' to the traditional accounts of the european project...witty and entertaining with an appropriate account of further sources and reading. McNeill educates with humour.

Dr R Rogerson
University of Strathclyde

An excellent and contemporary intercultural study - accessible to non specialists and imaginative in approach.

Dr Morgan, Anglia Polytechnic University

Spis treści

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Europeanisation of Europe
      Europe as a political project
      The invention of Europe
      Holiday driving
      Brussels as capital of Europe
      Europe and its others: America, Islam, and enlargement
      Conclusion
2 Europe and the nation
      Representing the nation
      The national routine
      Global media flows and national identities
      Euro Disney
      Rebranding the nation
      Urban landscapes and national identity
      Europeanising the nation
      Conclusion
3 Regional renaissance
      A Europe of the Regions?
      Why the resurgence of regional identities?
      Global or local? Regionalism as a political project
      The Bilbao Guggenheim
      Conclusion
4 A Europe of the Cities?
      The European city: 4 approaches
      The City and the street
      Transnationalism and the European city
      Mayors and city politics
      The Vatican and Global Catholicism
      Disembedding cities: football and television
      Conclusion
5 Travelling Europeans
      Discursive mobilities
      Corporeal travel
      Tourists
      Geographies of speed and movement
      Conclusions
6 Borderlands and barriers
      Schengenland and Europe’s external borders
      Concepts of the border
      The Berlin Wall
      Cross-border regions
      The Channel Tunnel
      Bridges
      Conclusions
7 Metroworld
      Europe’s metroworld
      Maspero’s ‘Roissy Express’
      Roadscapes
      Consumer landscapes
      Airports
      Conclusions
BIBLIOGRAPHY

O autorze

Donald McNeill is Associate Professor at the Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona (Routledge, 1999).