Christian Karner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has previously worked as a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow and as a Research Associate in the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include Ethnicity and Everyday Life (2007), The Use and Abuse of Memory (2013), and The Commonalities of Global Crises (2016). Monika Kopytowska received her Ph.D. from the University of Lodz, Poland, where she is currently affiliated with the Department of Pragmatics. Her research interests revolve around identity, media discourse and the representation of conflict, ethnicity, and religion. She is a founding member of the European Network for Intercultural Education Activities, and has been a visiting scholar at Lancaster University, the University of Ohio, and the University of Nairobi.

• Introduction: Discursively doing and undoing Europe; Christian Karner, Anna Duszak, Monika KopytowskaTransnationalism as an index to construct European identities: an analysis of ‘trans-European’ discourses; Franco ZappettiniDiscursively “undoing” and “doing Europe” the Austrian way; Christian KarnerBritain, Bulgaria and benefits: the political rhetoric of European (dis)integration; James MoirEuropean security under threat: mediating the crisis and constructing the Other; Monika Kopytowska & Łukasz Grabowski Europe and the Front National Stance: Shifting the Blame; Fabienne Baider and Maria ConstantinouCircling the wagons: the alternative für Deutschland and the rise of Eurosceptic populism in Germany; Christian Nestler and Jan RohgalfFrom national consensus to a new cleavage? The discursive negotiation of Europe in the Greek public debate during the economic crisis, 2010-2015; Zinovia LialioutiTowards a (dis)integrated Europe: the constructs of “Europe” and “Troika” versus “Portugal” and “the Portuguese” in a corpus of Portuguese opinion articles; Alexandra PintoDoing or undoing Europe critically in the Lisbon Treaty debate. A corpus-based analysis of British newspapers; Chiara NastiTorn Between Agendas: Macedonian National Identity between Europe and its Multicultural Agenda; Maja MuhicSettling accounts with the troublesome past: self-criticism in Poland and Eastern Europe; Magdalena NowickaEpilogue; Christian Karner and Monika Kopytowska

The result of intellectual debate, exchange and refinement, this volume contains a selection of the theoretically most sophisticated and empirically most thorough papers first presented in Warsaw and subsequently refined by the authors. Karner and Kopytowska selected contributors who altogether stretch across as much geographical space and as diverse a set of historical and contemporary experiences as possible. Consequently, the chapters that follow collectively cover large parts of Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the continent’s North as well as its Mediterranean South. They illustrate and analyze how political institutions and social relations are continually being done, re-done, and—particularly in periods of crisis—partly underdone. They pay particular attention to the roles played by linguistic and other semiotic practices in such crucial, albeit widely taken-for-granted, processes of ongoing social reproduction and (occasional) transformation.

Christian Karner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has previously worked as a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow and as a Research Associate in the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include Ethnicity and Everyday Life (2007), The Use and Abuse of Memory (2013), and The Commonalities of Global Crises (2016). Monika Kopytowska received her Ph.D. from the University of Lodz, Poland, where she is currently affiliated with the Department of Pragmatics. Her research interests revolve around identity, media discourse and the representation of conflict, ethnicity, and religion. She is a founding member of the European Network for Intercultural Education Activities, and has been a visiting scholar at Lancaster University, the University of Ohio, and the University of Nairobi.

• Introduction: Discursively doing and undoing Europe; Christian Karner, Anna Duszak, Monika KopytowskaTransnationalism as an index to construct European identities: an analysis of ‘trans-European’ discourses; Franco ZappettiniDiscursively “undoing” and “doing Europe” the Austrian way; Christian KarnerBritain, Bulgaria and benefits: the political rhetoric of European (dis)integration; James MoirEuropean security under threat: mediating the crisis and constructing the Other; Monika Kopytowska & Łukasz Grabowski Europe and the Front National Stance: Shifting the Blame; Fabienne Baider and Maria ConstantinouCircling the wagons: the alternative für Deutschland and the rise of Eurosceptic populism in Germany; Christian Nestler and Jan RohgalfFrom national consensus to a new cleavage? The discursive negotiation of Europe in the Greek public debate during the economic crisis, 2010-2015; Zinovia LialioutiTowards a (dis)integrated Europe: the constructs of “Europe” and “Troika” versus “Portugal” and “the Portuguese” in a corpus of Portuguese opinion articles; Alexandra PintoDoing or undoing Europe critically in the Lisbon Treaty debate. A corpus-based analysis of British newspapers; Chiara NastiTorn Between Agendas: Macedonian National Identity between Europe and its Multicultural Agenda; Maja MuhicSettling accounts with the troublesome past: self-criticism in Poland and Eastern Europe; Magdalena NowickaEpilogue; Christian Karner and Monika Kopytowska

The result of intellectual debate, exchange and refinement, this volume contains a selection of the theoretically most sophisticated and empirically most thorough papers first presented in Warsaw and subsequently refined by the authors. Karner and Kopytowska selected contributors who altogether stretch across as much geographical space and as diverse a set of historical and contemporary experiences as possible. Consequently, the chapters that follow collectively cover large parts of Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the continent’s North as well as its Mediterranean South. They illustrate and analyze how political institutions and social relations are continually being done, re-done, and—particularly in periods of crisis—partly underdone. They pay particular attention to the roles played by linguistic and other semiotic practices in such crucial, albeit widely taken-for-granted, processes of ongoing social reproduction and (occasional) transformation.

Christian Karner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has previously worked as a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow and as a Research Associate in the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include Ethnicity and Everyday Life (2007), The Use and Abuse of Memory (2013), and The Commonalities of Global Crises (2016). Monika Kopytowska received her Ph.D. from the University of Lodz, Poland, where she is currently affiliated with the Department of Pragmatics. Her research interests revolve around identity, media discourse and the representation of conflict, ethnicity, and religion. She is a founding member of the European Network for Intercultural Education Activities, and has been a visiting scholar at Lancaster University, the University of Ohio, and the University of Nairobi.

• Introduction: Discursively doing and undoing Europe; Christian Karner, Anna Duszak, Monika KopytowskaTransnationalism as an index to construct European identities: an analysis of ‘trans-European’ discourses; Franco ZappettiniDiscursively “undoing” and “doing Europe” the Austrian way; Christian KarnerBritain, Bulgaria and benefits: the political rhetoric of European (dis)integration; James MoirEuropean security under threat: mediating the crisis and constructing the Other; Monika Kopytowska & Łukasz Grabowski Europe and the Front National Stance: Shifting the Blame; Fabienne Baider and Maria ConstantinouCircling the wagons: the alternative für Deutschland and the rise of Eurosceptic populism in Germany; Christian Nestler and Jan RohgalfFrom national consensus to a new cleavage? The discursive negotiation of Europe in the Greek public debate during the economic crisis, 2010-2015; Zinovia LialioutiTowards a (dis)integrated Europe: the constructs of “Europe” and “Troika” versus “Portugal” and “the Portuguese” in a corpus of Portuguese opinion articles; Alexandra PintoDoing or undoing Europe critically in the Lisbon Treaty debate. A corpus-based analysis of British newspapers; Chiara NastiTorn Between Agendas: Macedonian National Identity between Europe and its Multicultural Agenda; Maja MuhicSettling accounts with the troublesome past: self-criticism in Poland and Eastern Europe; Magdalena NowickaEpilogue; Christian Karner and Monika Kopytowska

The result of intellectual debate, exchange and refinement, this volume contains a selection of the theoretically most sophisticated and empirically most thorough papers first presented in Warsaw and subsequently refined by the authors. Karner and Kopytowska selected contributors who altogether stretch across as much geographical space and as diverse a set of historical and contemporary experiences as possible. Consequently, the chapters that follow collectively cover large parts of Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the continent’s North as well as its Mediterranean South. They illustrate and analyze how political institutions and social relations are continually being done, re-done, and—particularly in periods of crisis—partly underdone. They pay particular attention to the roles played by linguistic and other semiotic practices in such crucial, albeit widely taken-for-granted, processes of ongoing social reproduction and (occasional) transformation.