Becoming Europeans

This book addresses European identity as an object of both theoretical and empirical investigation. At the theoretical level it focuses on the academic and institutional debate on European cultural identity. It places this debate in the broader context of Europeanization and the formation of a European society led by institutional projects since World War II, as well as within wider processes of globalization, the collapse of monolithic collective identities and the new centrality of the issue of diversity. At an empirical level the book explores two main case studies. The first concentrates on EU cultural policy and on one of its most representative actions, the European Capital of Culture programme, established in 1985. The second case study considers the Council of Europe, which since its foundation in 1949 has been based on a much more cultural approach, and its strategy of Europeanization through cultural co-operation, focusing on its recent European Landscape Convention, ratified in 2004.

ISBN 0230537421   Pages 248 ISBN13 9780230537422 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 436 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Format Hardback   Height (mm) 226 Publication date 16 Jul 2009   Width (mm) 146 DEWEY 940.55   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		List of Figures
		List ofTables and Boxes
		List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
		Introduction		1
Pt. I		Making the Europeans: Cultural Identity and Cultural Policy
1		Imagined Europe: Narratives of European Cultural Identity		19
2		European Cultural Policies		46
Pt. II		Being and Becoming: the European Capitals of Culture
3		A Simple Idea and a Vision: the ECOC Programme		79
4		A 'Wealth of Urban Cultures': the European Cites of Culture in 2000		109
Pt. III		Europe as a Landscape: the European Landscape Convention
5		From Monuments to Landscapes: the European Landscape Convention		141
6		Europe as a Landscape: Unity in Diversity in Practice		168
		Notes		201
		Bibliography		214
		Index		229

Winner of the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2010

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