New Europe: Imagined Spaces / Edition 1

by Donald McNeill

Overview

This study traces the radical transformation of European places and spaces over the last two decades. Instead of the familiar "schoolbook" map of a Europe of nation-states, McNeill unpacks the differing imaginations of European identity. Taking as his central problem the fluid nature of cultural and political identity, he moves firmly away from—and calls into question—the perspective of the nation-state as the primary source of imagined identity for Europeans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340760550
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/30/2004
Series:	A Hodder Arnold Publication Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Donald McNeill is Associate Professor at the Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona (Routledge, 1999).

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Europeanisation of Europe
Europe as a political project
The invention of Europe
Holiday driving
Brussels as capital of Europe
Europe and its others: America, Islam, and enlargement
Conclusion
2 Europe and the nation
Representing the nation
The national routine
Global media flows and national identities
Euro Disney
Rebranding the nation
Urban landscapes and national identity
Europeanising the nation
Conclusion
3 Regional renaissance
A Europe of the Regions?
Why the resurgence of regional identities?
Global or local? Regionalism as a political project
The Bilbao Guggenheim
Conclusion
4 A Europe of the Cities?
The European city: 4 approaches
The City and the street
Transnationalism and the European city
Mayors and city politics
The Vatican and Global Catholicism
Disembedding cities: football and television
Conclusion
5 Travelling Europeans
Discursive mobilities
Corporeal travel
Tourists
Geographies of speed and movement
Conclusions
6 Borderlands and barriers
Schengenland and Europe's external borders
Concepts of the border
The Berlin Wall
Cross-border regions
The Channel Tunnel
Bridges
Conclusions
7 Metroworld
Europe's metroworld
Maspero's 'Roissy Express'
Roadscapes
Consumer landscapes
Airports
Conclusions
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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From the Publisher

This book tackles exactly the issues we explore!
Dr M Kneafsey, Coventry University, UK

An excellent 'alternative' to the traditional accounts of the european project...witty and entertaining with an appropriate account of further sources and reading. McNeill educates with humour.

Dr R Rogerson University of Strathclyde

An excellent and contemporary intercultural study - accessible to non specialists and imaginative in approach.

Dr Morgan, Anglia Polytechnic University

Editorial Reviews

This book tackles exactly the issues we explore!
Dr M Kneafsey, Coventry University, UK

An excellent 'alternative' to the traditional accounts of the european project...witty and entertaining with an appropriate account of further sources and reading. McNeill educates with humour.

Dr R Rogerson
University of Strathclyde

An excellent and contemporary intercultural study - accessible to non specialists and imaginative in approach.

Dr Morgan, Anglia Polytechnic University

From the Publisher