ISBN:
9780340760550
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Series Statement:
Hodder Arnold Publication
Parallel Title:
Print version New Europe : Imagined Spaces
DDC:
301.094
Keywords:
Human geography - Europe
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 o
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Imagined spaces; Mobilities and urbanities; Essences and stereotypes; Position; Structure and contents; 1 The Europeanisation of Europe; Europe as a political project; The invention of Europe; Symbolic construction: Europe of flags and anthems; Europe as money: the Euro; Europe as popular culture; A European foodscape?; Holiday driving; Box 1 Brussels as capital of Europe; Europe and its others: America, Islam, and enlargement; America, Europe, and globalisation; Islam and Europe
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Enlargement: Mitteleuropa, Russia, and BalkanisationConclusion; 2 Europe and the nation; Representing the nation; The national routine; The European football ritual; National car cultures; Eating and drinking; Global media flows and national identities; Box 2 Euro Disney; Rebranding the nation; Forza Italia; Cool Britannia; Urban landscapes and national identity; Paris: Mitterrand's grands projets; Berlin, the Reichstag, and German reunification; The Millennium Dome; Allan Pred and the globe/alisation of Sweden; The Acropolis; Europeanising the nation; Ireland: between America and Europe
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Post-Francoist Spain and 1992Conclusion; 3 Regional renaissance; A Europe of the regions?; Why the resurgence of regional identities?; The democratic deficit; Preservation of cultural identity; Linguistic identity; Functional economic spaces and structural funds; High-tech regions; Global or local? Regionalism as a political project; Box 3 The Bilbao Guggenheim; Inventing the region: the Lega Nord; The Braveheart phenomenon; The 1992 Olympics: Barcelona versus Catalonia?; Conclusion; 4 A Europe of the cities?; The European city: four approaches
Description / Table of Contents:
The entrepreneurial city: shifts in urban governanceCities of culture and urban tourism; Cityscapes and palimpsest; City-states and neo-medievalism; The City and the street; Pedestrians and car-drivers; Nostalgia, disorientation, and political anger; Box 4a Barcelona's La Rambla; Politics from the streets; Transnationalism and the European city; Mayors and city politics; Embodying the city; Performing elections; Cityscape as theatre; Box 4b The Vatican and Global Catholicism; Disembedding cities: football and television; Conclusion; 5 Travelling Europeans; Discursive mobilities
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Corporeal travelEconomic migrants; A professional and business class; Celebrities (image-based personalities); Students and universities; Illegal and criminal movements; Tourism; Mass tourism and the culture of the suntan; Rurality and simplicity: Peter Mayle's Provence; Geographies of speed and movement; The European Union and mobility; Railscapes and a trans-European consciousness; Box 5 The European railway station; Motorways; Air travel; Seaports and maritime cultures; Conclusion; 6 Borderlands and barriers; Schengenland and Europe's external borders; Fortress Europe and Schengenland
Description / Table of Contents:
Concepts of the border
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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