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European Identities in Discourse: A Transnational Citizens' Perspective

European Identities in Discourse: A Transnational Citizens' Perspective

Zappettini, Franco

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies

LinguisticsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1350042986
ISBN13: 9781350042988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 2 2019
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Based on empirical research, this book closely analyses how European identities are discursively produced. It focuses on discourse from members of a civic association active in promoting democracy and attempting participation in the transnational public sphere.

Unlike previous books that have addressed the question of European identity from top-down stances or through methodological nationalism, this book engages with the multifaceted concept of transnationalism as a key to the negotiation of 'glocal' identities. Applying a discourse historical approach (DHA) through a transnational reading, it shows how grassroots actors/speakers construct their different cultural and political affiliations as both world and European citizens. They negotiate institutional identities and historical discourses of nationhood through new forms of mobility, cultural diversity and the imagination of Europe as a proxy for a cosmopolitan civil society. These discourses are ever more important in a fractured and polarised Europe falling prey to contrary discourses of nationhood and ethnic solidarity.

Highlighting how transnational narratives of solidarity and the de-territorialisation of civic participation can impact on the (re)imagination of the European community beyond tropes like 'Fortress Europe' or intragovernmental politics, this important book shows how identification processes must be read through historical and global as well as localised contexts.

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