History and Belonging

Representations of the Past in Contemporary European Politics
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-880-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU’s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested history of Europe ever exist? Combining studies of national politics, supranational institutions, and the fraught EU-Mideast periphery with a particular focus on the twentieth century, the contributors to History and Belonging offer a fascinating survey of the attempt to forge a post-national identity politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Stefan

Tekin, Caner

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Towards a ‘Europeanised’ European History?

Caner Tekin and Stefan Berger

Chapter 1. Exhibiting Post-national Identity: The House of European History

Daniel Rosenberg

Chapter 2. The European Union and the Historiography of European Integration: Dangerous Liaisons?

Orianne Calligaro

Chapter 3. Representations of National Cultures vis-à-vis the ‘European’ at the European Union National Institutes for Culture

Claudia Schneider

Chapter 4. Europe – a Concept in its Own Right or an Intermediate State between National Traditions and Global Interrelatedness? Representations of Europe in Curricula, Textbooks and Surveys

Falk Pingel

Chapter 5. The Past in English Euroscepticism

Ben Wellings and Chris Gifford

Chapter 6. (Trans)national Memories of the Common Past in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Jelena Dureinovic

Chapter 7. Disturbing Memories: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist History of Europe

Claudia Weber

Chapter 8. ‘Glorious, Accursed Europe’ – A Fictional Historian, Transcultural Holocaust Memory and the Quest for a European identity

Judith Müller

Chapter 9. Who Lost Turkey? The Consequences of Writing an Exclusionary European History

Paul  T. Levin

Chapter 10. Conceptualisations of Turkey’s Past in the European Parliament

Caner Tekin

Conclusion: European and National Ways of Politicizing European History

Stefan Berger and Caner Tekin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berger, Stefan
Stefan Berger has been the Chairman of the Library Foundation of the Ruhr since 2011. He directs the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum, and previously held the position of Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester.

Tekin, Caner
Caner Tekin (PhD) is a member of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. He worked previously at the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Brunswick as a postdoctoral fellow

Stefan Berger has been the Chairman of the Library Foundation of the Ruhr since 2011. He directs the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum, and previously held the position of Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester.