This volume brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to discuss the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyse how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.

'The volume provides important critical theoretical insights into the state of the art of the problematic identity concept in social sciences.' Bo Strath, Nations and Nationalism

'...the text as a whole is incisive, carefully argued, and informative.' - Jeff Noonan, The European Legacy

Autorentext
FELIX CIUTA is Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Centre of European Politics, Security and Integration, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK GERARD DELANTY is Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK DON ELLIS is Professor of Communication, School of Communication, University of Hartford, USA JAN IFVERSEN is Associate Professor of European Studies and Head of the Institute of History and Area Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark MIRCA MADIANOU is Fellow, Lecturer and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK PETER MILLWARD is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK ERIK RINGMAR is Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan C. CLAIRE THOMSON was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at UCL from 2004 to 2006 RUTH WODAK holds the Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University, UK

Inhalt
List of Diagrams Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Discursive Identities/Identity Discourses and Political Power; R.C.M.Mole PART 1: DISCOURSE AND IDENTITY A Discourse Theory of Ethnic Identity; D.Ellis The Discursive Construction of European Identities; R.Wodak The Tale-End of History: Literary Form, Historiography and the Danish (Post)-National Imagination; C.C.Thomson 'Doing Europe': The Discursive Construction of European Identities; R.Wodak Shifting Discourses: Banal Nationalism and Cultural Intimacy in Greek Television News and Everyday Life; M.Madianou PART 2: DISCOURSE, IDENTITY AND POLITICS The Power of Metaphor: Consent, Dissent and Revolution; E.Ringmar Post-Liberal Anxieties and Discourses of Peoplehood in Europe: Nationalism, Xenophobia and Racism; G.Delanty & P.Millward Talking Security? The Discourse of European Identity in the Baltic States; R.C.M.Mole It's About Time - is Europe Old or New?; J.Ifversen Narratives of Security: Strategy and Identity in the European Context; F.Ciuta Conclusion: Revisiting Discourse, Identity and 'Europe'; R.C.M.Mole & F.Ciuta References Index