(Re)Imagining Europe

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(Re)Imagining Europe

• The Rise of New Europe

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Challenges to Nationalism

• European cultural identity, like national
  identity, is constructed
• Challenge to national identity is on 2 fronts
• transnationalism
• Regionalism
• Transnationalism as scaling-up of imagined
  community
• Regionalism as its scaling-down

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Scaling-Up to Europe

• The EU has deployed same kinds of
  representations, institutions and discourses as
  nations in configuring its identity
• Territorial boundedness
• Economic institutions the Euro
• Anthem, flag, Europe Day
• Military task force
• Political institutions constitution

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Scaling-Up to Europe

• The EU has deployed same kinds of
  representations, institutions and discourses as
  nations in configuring its identity
• Media spaces
• Satellite broadcast Television
• Sports events soccer (European leagues)
• MEDIA program
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/avpolicy/mediapro/media_
  en.htm

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Regionalism and Multiculturalism

• Scaling-down?
• Imagined community on smaller regional scale
• Perhaps a re-scaling new basis for imagined
  community that permits, even encourages,
  cultural diversity

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http//magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2002/
01/01/html/ft_20020101.3.html