Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics

247 Pages·2007·0.935 MB·Language and Globalization

by  Richard C. M. Mole (eds.)

Discursive Constructions
of Identity in European
Politics
Edited by
Richard C.M. Mole
Language and Globalization
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements x
Notes on the Contributors xi
1 Discursive Identities/Identity Discourses and Political
Power 1
Richard Mole
Part I: Discourse and Identity
2 A Discourse Theory of Ethnic Identity 25
Don Ellis
3 The Tale-End of History: Literary Form, Historiography
and the Danish (Post)-National Imagination 45
C. Claire Thomson
4 ‘Doing Europe’: the Discursive Construction of European
Identities 70
Ruth Wodak
5 Shifting Discourses: Banal Nationalism and Cultural
Intimacy in Greek Television News and Everyday Life 95
Mirca Madianou
Part II: Discourse, Identity and Politics
6 The Power of Metaphor: Consent, Dissent and
Revolution 119
Erik Ringmar
7 Post-Liberal Anxieties and Discourses of Peoplehood
in Europe: Nationalism, Xenophobia and Racism 137
Gerard Delanty and Peter Millward
8 Talking Security? The Discourse of European Identity in
the Baltic States 149
Richard Mole
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9 It’s About Time: is Europe Old or New? 170
Jan Ifversen
10 Narratives of Security: Strategy and Identity in the
European Context 190
Felix Ciuta˘
11 Conclusion: Revisiting Discourse, Identity and ‘Europe’ 208
Richard Mole and Felix Ciuta˘
Bibliography 213
Index 233
List of Figures
4.1 The nexus of discourses on Europe 74
4.2 Europa homepage 84
4.3 A heuristic model of identity 92
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