European Identity – Top Down or Bottom Up?

Authors

  • Florian Greiner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2011.579

Abstract

This essay collection approaches the issue of European identity, which has been so controversially discussed and highly politicised in recent years, from a determinedly interdisciplinary perspective. The theoretical-programmatic as well as empirical contributions by renowned political scientists, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists undertake in particular the task of finding a middle ground between the top-down and bottom-up approaches which are prevalent, but often treated separately, within the field of European Studies. In most essays, however, European identity is rather too hastily equated with EU identity, and a view towards the process-related, long-term perspective of European identity is impeded by insufficient historicisation.

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Published

2011-01-31

Issue

Section

KULT_reviews

How to Cite

“European Identity – Top Down or Bottom Up?”. 2011. KULT_online, no. 26 (January). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2011.579.