European Puzzle

Marion Demossier is a senior lecturer in French and Anthropology at the University of Bath. She is the co-ordinator of a postgraduate Euromasters and Trans-Atlantic Masters course on ‘Culture and identity in Europe’ which has provided the material for this book. She has published extensively on the Anthropology of rural France and has recently edited a book on Recollections of France: Memories, Identities and Heritage (Berghahn, 2001). Her first monograph Hommes et Vins, une anthropologie du vignoble bourguignon was published in 1999 (éditions universitaires de Dijon) and won a prize. She is currently preparing a monograph on Wine Culture and Consumption in France.

• AcknowledgmentsEditorial NoteIntroductionMarion DemossierPART I: EUROPEAN POLITICAL CONSTRUCTSChapter 1. The formation of national identitiesAnne-Marie ThiesseChapter 2. ‘More than its fair share of history’. Europe and its recent past.Richard VinenChapter 3. The political structuring of cultural identities in EuropeMarion DemossierChapter 4. European identity in a transnational eraRalph GrilloPART II: CULTURAL AND POLITICAL IDENTITIES IN TRANSITIONChapter 5. Heritage versus tradition, cultural resources for a new EuropeUllrich KockelChapter 6. Dinosaur, shipwreck, or museum piece? The unstable identity of European cinemaWendy EverettChapter 7. Through the looking glass of footballChristian BrombergerPART III: TOWARDS A EUROPEAN IDENTITY: CHALLENGES TO EXISTING FORMS OF BELONGING AND CULTURAL VALUESChapter 8. Party, identity and europeanisation, an asymetrical relationship?David HanleyChapter 9. Remapping regionalism in EuropePeter WagstaffChapter 10. Cultural identities and the European citySusan MilnerBibliographyIndex

“Despite the variety of approaches and themes developed, the book successfully bridges this interdisciplinarity and provides a coherent flow of analysis of European identity which, as the title best illustrates, still remains a puzzle to be explored. The book therefore highlights the complexity of constructing European identity from political and cultural means…Overall it intellectually alerts the reader to some of the most significant challenges facing European identity and will be very useful to experts in the field.”  ·  Political Studies Review