The Evolution of European Identities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Dimensions for the Expression of European Identity

   • Robert Miller, Markieta Domecka, Dirk Schubotz, Maruška Svašek

   Pages 1-20

3. Method in Practice: Autobiographical Narrative Interviews in Search of European Phenomena

   • Markieta Domecka, Marta Eichsteller, Slavka Karakusheva, Pasquale Musella, Liis Ojamäe, Elisabetta Perone et al.

   Pages 21-44

4. International Education in the Life Course

   • Howard Davis, Graham Day, Sally Baker, Marta Eichsteller

   Pages 45-60

5. Identity Project under Construction: European Identity and Educational Mobility in the Case of Majka

   • Marta Eichsteller

   Pages 61-75

6. Transnational Work in the Biographical Experiences of Traditional Professions and Corporate Executives: Analysis of Two Cases

   • Kaja Kaźmierska, Andrzej Piotrowski, Katarzyna Waniek

   Pages 76-101

7. Farmers: More and Less Europeans

   • Mariana Draganova, Rumiana Jeleva, Dona Pickard, Slavka Karakusheva

   Pages 102-114

8. ‘Europe’ as Hope: A Farmer’s Viewpoint from Bulgaria

   • Rumiana Jeleva, Mariana Draganova, Dona Pickard, Slavka Karakusheva

   Pages 115-128

9. Exploring European ‘Potential Space’: A Study of the Biographies of Former Foreign Exchange Students

   • Lena Inowlocki, Gerhard Riemann

   Pages 129-149

10. Discoverers in European Mental Space: The Biographical Experiences of Participants in European Civil Society Organisations

    • Fritz Schütze, Anja Schröder-Wildhagen, Ulrike Nagel, Bärbel Treichel

    Pages 150-169

11. Miriam, an Environmental Activist

    • Anja Schröder-Wildhagen, Fritz Schütze, Ulrike Nagel, Bärbel Treichel

    Pages 170-181

12. Into and Out of Europe: Dynamic Insider/Outsider Perspectives

    • Dirk Schubotz, Maruška Svašek, Robert Miller, Markieta Domecka

    Pages 182-200

13. Europe Out of Europe: The View from the Other Side of the World: The case of Matt Wellwood

    • Markieta Domecka

    Pages 201-210

14. Cross-Cultural Exchanges: Intimate Relationships and Transforming Societies

    • Katrin Paadam, Liis Ojamäe, Kristel Siilak

    Pages 211-232

15. Cross-Cultural Couples in the Old and New Europe: From Bi-Localism to Emotional Transnationalism

    • Antonella Spanò, Pasquale Musella, Elisabetta Perone

    Pages 233-254

16. European Mental Space and its Biographical Relevance

    • Fritz Schütze, Anja Schröder-Wildhagen

    Pages 255-278

17. Back Matter

    Pages 279-307

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The 'European project' is in a state of perpetual crisis in which the root cause is a lack of identification by ordinary citizens with Europe and European institutions. The Evolution of European Identities employs state of the art analysis of in-depth interviews by renowned practitioners to give a unique 'bottoms up' perspective on the development (or its lack) of a sense of 'European mental space'. Linking conceptual findings with case studies, the book provides unique insights into groups that have been especially sensitized by their life experiences to question what it means to be European in the twenty-first century. The groups explored in this book include: adults who experienced European education exchanges when young; transnational workers; civil society organization activists; persons involved in cross-border intimate relationships; farmers who are subject to European markets, regulations and subsidies; and migrants into 'fortress Europe'.

• education
• emotion
• environment
• European identity
• evolution
• identity
• interview
• mobility
• Nation
• nationalism
• organization
• society
• Tradition
• Transnational

• Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

  Robert Miller

• Bangor University, UK

  Graham Day

SALLY BAKER Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Bangor University, UK HOWARD DAVIS Professor of Social Theory and Institutions in the School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK GRAHAM DAY Head of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK MARKIETA DOMECKA Research Assistant in the Department of Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK MARIANA DRAGANOVA Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria MARTA EICHSTELLER Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK LENA INOWLOCKI Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany RUMIANA JELEVA Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, Bulgaria SLAVKA KARAKUSHEVA PhD student at Sofia University, Bulgaria KAJA KA?MIERSKA Professor of Sociology at University of Lodz, Poland PASQUALE MUSELLA Researcher at University of Naples Federico II, Italy ULRIKE NAGEL Associate Professor of Microsociology at the University of Magdeburg, Germany LIIS OJAMÄE Associate Professor at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia KATRIN PAADAM Professor of Sociology at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia ELISABETTA PERONE PhD student at University of Naples Federico II, Italy DONA PICKARD Doctoral student at theInstitute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria ANDRZEJ PIOTROWSKI Professor of Sociology at University of Lodz, Poland GERHARD RIEMANN Professor of Social Work at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg, Germany ANJA SCHRÖDER-WILDHAGEN Research Assistant at the University of Magdeburg, Germany DIRK SCHUBOTZ Research Fellow with ARK, a joint project of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster, UK FRITZ SCHÜTZE was Chair of General Sociology/Microsociology at the University of Magdeburg, Germany KRISTEL SIILAK Lecturer at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia ANTONELLA SPANÒ Professor of Sociology at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy MARUSKA SVASEK Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast, UK BÄRBEL TREICHEL Visiting Professor at the University of Erfurt, Germany KATARZYNA WANIEK Lecturer in the Department of Sociology of Culture, University of Lodz, Poland

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