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Dividing United Europe - From Crisis to Fragmentation? (Hardcover)
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Dividing United Europe - From Crisis to Fragmentation? (Hardcover)
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Pictures of Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform, the burning of German
flags, newspaper articles portraying Southern Europe as work-shy
and Northern Europe as tight-fisted: The Eurozone crisis has thrown
up old stereotypes; often digging into well-established historical
images of 'the other'. The conscious or tacit (ab)use of national
prejudices by politicians and parts of the media, and the strong
emotional reactions among European citizens have caused a lot of
public concern about the likely negative implications of such
reawakening of national cliches and the newly hardening boundaries
they construct for the process of European integration. It is
evident that current and recent crises confront European citizens
with profound dilemmas which they seek to make sense of, and in
response to which much new political mobilisation takes place. At
the same time, some of the interpretative and political reactions
thus generated also have the potential to become very destructive
processes, putting into question years of integration efforts. This
book brings together scholars who examine the nexus between
(economic) crisis, national identities and the use of historical
images, and prejudices and stereotypes, by focusing particularly on
media and political discourses in different European countries. In
addition to detailed empirical discussions covering diverse
national settings across Europe, the different contributions
discuss and offer a variety of conceptual and methodological
approaches within the inter-disciplinary study of national
identities, prejudice and stereotyping in the context of
socio-economic and political crises. This book was originally
published as a Special Issue of National Identities.
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