Dividing United Europe
Pictures of Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform, the burning of German flags, newspaper articles portraying Southern Europe as work-shy and Northern Europe as tight-fisted: The Eurozone crisis has thrown up old stereotypes; often digging into well-established historical images of the other. The conscious or tacit (ab)use of national prejudices by politicians and parts of the media, and the strong emotional reactions among European citizens have caused a lot of public concern about the likely negative implications of such reawakening of national clichs and the newly hardening boundaries they construct for the process of European integration. It is evident that current and recent crises confront European citizens with profound dilemmas which they seek to make sense of, and in response to which much new political mobilisation takes place. At the same time, some of the interpretative and political reactions thus generated also have the potential to become very destructive processes, putting into question years of integration efforts. This book brings together scholars who examine the nexus between (economic) crisis, national identities and the use of historical images, and prejudices and stereotypes, by focusing particularly on media and political discourses in different European countries. In addition to detailed empirical discussions covering diverse national settings across Europe, the different contributions discuss and offer a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches within the inter-disciplinary study of national identities, prejudice and stereotyping in the context of socio-economic and political crises. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of National Identities.
Aline Sierp is Assistant Professor in European Studies at Maastricht University, Netherlands. Before joining Maastricht University, Aline Sierp worked as researcher at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. Her research interests cover collective memory, questions of identity and European integration. She is the author of History, Memory and Trans-European Identity: Unifying Divisions (Routledge, 2014) and the Founder and Co-President of the Memory Studies Association.
Christian Karner is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published widely within urban sociology, nationalism, and ethnicity studies. Christian has previously held a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship, and has been a research associate at the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA. His books include Ethnicity and Everyday Life (2007), Negotiating National Identities (2011), The Use and Abuse of Memory (2013), The Commonalities of Global Crises (2016), and National Identity and Europe in Times of Crisis (2017).
Dividing United Europe
From Crisis to Fragmentation?
Edited by
Aline Sierp and Christian Karner
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Contents
Aline Sierp and Christian Karner
Johanna Tuulia Vuorelma
Elena Genova
Zinovia Lialiouti and Giorgos Bithymitris
Tereza Capelos and Theofanis Exadaktylos
Asimina Michailidou
Horst-Alfred Heinrich and Bernhard Stahl
Matti Van Hecke
Christian Karner and Aline Sierp
The following chapters were originally published in the journal National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
National stereotypes in the context of the European crisis
Aline Sierp and Christian Karner
National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 19
Chapter 1
A narrative battle: debating Finlands EU policy during the economic crisis
Johanna Tuulia Vuorelma
National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 1131
Chapter 2
Between a rock and a hard place: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis
Elena Genova
National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 3351
Chapter 3
A nation under attack: perceptions of enmity and victimhood in the context of the Greek crisis
Zinovia Lialiouti and Giorgos Bithymitris
National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 5371
Chapter 4
Feeling the pulse of the Greek debt crisis: affect on the web of blame
Tereza Capelos and Theofanis Exadaktylos
National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 7390
Chapter 5
The Germans are back: Euroscepticism and anti-Germanism in crisis-stricken Greece
Asimina Michailidou
National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 91108
Chapter 6
Pictorial stereotypes and images in the Euro debt crisis
Horst-Alfred Heinrich and Bernhard Stahl
National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 109127
Chapter 7
Imag(in)ing the eurocrisis: a comparative analysis of political cartoons
Matti Van Hecke
National Identities, volume 19, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 129147
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Giorgos Bithymitris is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Political Research at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. His current research interests focus on union movement theory, strike events and industrial disputes, organised interests, ideology, and framing processes in the context of crisis. He has published academic articles and book chapters on Greek unionism, public discourse in the context of economic crisis, and employment relations.
