Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Discursive Identities/Identity Discourses and Political Power

   1. Discursive Identities/Identity Discourses and Political Power

      • Richard Mole

      Pages 1-21

3. Discourse and Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. A Discourse Theory of Ethnic Identity

      • Don Ellis

      Pages 25-44

   3. The Tale-End of History: Literary Form, Historiography and the Danish (Post)-National Imagination

      • C. Claire Thomson

      Pages 45-69

   4. ‘Doing Europe’: the Discursive Construction of European Identities

      • Ruth Wodak

      Pages 70-94

   5. Shifting Discourses: Banal Nationalism and Cultural Intimacy in Greek Television News and Everyday Life

      • Mirca Madianou

      Pages 95-116

4. Discourse, Identity and Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. The Power of Metaphor: Consent, Dissent and Revolution

      • Erik Ringmar

      Pages 119-136

   3. Post-Liberal Anxieties and Discourses of Peoplehood in Europe: Nationalism, Xenophobia and Racism

      • Gerard Delanty, Peter Millward

      Pages 137-148

   4. Talking Security? The Discourse of European Identity in the Baltic States

      • Richard Mole

      Pages 149-169

   5. It’s About Time: is Europe Old or New?

      • Jan Ifversen

      Pages 170-189

   6. Narratives of Security: Strategy and Identity in the European Context

      • Felix Ciută

      Pages 190-207

   7. Conclusion: Revisiting Discourse, Identity and ‘Europe’

      • Richard Mole, Felix Ciută

      Pages 208-212

5. Back Matter

   Pages 213-236

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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.

• discourse
• European identity
• European Politic
• European Politics
• identity
• knowledge
• Nation
• nationalism
• politics
• revolution
• television

'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

• University College London, UK

  Richard C. M. Mole

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

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