"This is all fascinating, well documented, and the relationship between local activism and the larger political movements is sensibly analysed...Overall this is a revealing study of the power of locality in framing experience and action." - JRAI ..".in focusing attention on the importance of deconstructing localisms, Stacul issues an important challenge to students of any aspect of Italian society." - Modern Italy
Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong...
"This is all fascinating, well documented, and the relationship between local activism and the larger political movements is sensibly analysed.....
At the turn of the millennium the state of Europe is fluid and contested, yet how this affects the everyday lives of European peoples and the ways they experience the social world they live in remains largely unexplored. Drawing upon ethnographic information from diverse European settings, this volume points to the contradictions that the project of a "Europe without boundaries" involves. In illustrating how the removal of political boundaries can create other boundaries, the articles in this volume provide alternatives to recent theorising on complexity, which takes little account of human...
At the turn of the millennium the state of Europe is fluid and contested, yet how this affects the everyday lives of European peoples and the ways the...
