Shades of Blue (eBook)

Claiming Europe in the Age of Disintegration

Félix Krawatzek, Friedemann Pestel, Rieke Trimcev, Gregor Feindt (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
312 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7933-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In Shades of Blue, Félix Krawatzek, Friedemann Pestel, Rieke Trimçev, and Gregor Feindt investigate the political project of "Europe" as it oscillates between the extremes of expectations of an ever-wider integration and fear of disintegration. The authors interrogate and chart the space between these polarities by tracking the many competing conceptions of Europe in European public discourse and relate these meanings to national, regional, and ideological divisions.

Based on qualitative discourse analyses of newspaper articles from six European Union member states between 2004 and 2023, Shades of Blue shifts how we think about Europe's integration and disintegration and offers a new perspective on Europeanization. With twelve debates chronicling Europe's past and discussing the implications for Europe's future, these authors uncover how politicians, intellectuals, and journalists negotiate European senses of belonging. Shades of Blue moves beyond the binaries of hope and despair to uncover a more nuanced picture of Europe.

Autor

Félix Krawatzek is a political scientist at the Centre for East European and International Studies.

Friedemann Pestel is a historian at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Rieke Trimçev is a political theorist at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Gregor Feindt is a historian at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz and Associate Member of the Special Research Center on human differentiation at the University of Mainz.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Many Meanings of Europe
1. The Roots of Europe? From Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment
2. Risen from the Ashes? Telling Stories about Postwar Europe
3. The Seminal Catastrophe: The First World War between European Ambitions and National Realities
4. Universalizing the Holocaust: Founding Myth(s) for Europe
5. Two Totalitarian Regimes, Two Genocides? An Alternative Foundation from "New Europe"
6. Beyond the Pale for Europe: Present-Day Russia
7. The Impossible EU Member: Turkey's Enduring Nonaccession
8. War in the "Heart of Europe": Facing Mass Violence in the Balkans
9. Pacts of Forgetting? Integrating Greece, Spain, and Portugal
10. Target Europe? Striving for Solidarity against Terror
11. To Leave or Not to Leave: The Many Histories behind Brexit
12. Europe's Failure, Europe's Rebirth? Refugee Crises
Conclusion: The Future of Europe's Past

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2025
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: European union, political discourse, shared memory, normative thresholds, country integration, pubic history, ideological divisions
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-7933-8 / 1501779338
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-7933-6 / 9781501779336