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Europe as/at the border: Trieste and the meaning of Europe.
- Source :
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Social & Cultural Geography . May2009, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p319-336. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- In this paper, I try to 'think Europe' through a cosmopolitan city like Trieste, and its recent and not so recent past. I develop my argument through the analysis of two powerful 'myths' that, I argue, limit understandings of Europe and the European project today: (1) the 'myth of diversity'; and (2) the 'myth of an identity in crisis'. In doing so, I rely in great part on the work of French sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin and his conceptualisation of European identity as a permanent negotiation of difference; what Morin (1990) terms 'a permanent dialogical simmer'. Starting from Morin's critical genealogy of European identity, I try to consider some of the ways in which we can go beyond territorial understandings of identity and citizenship, using Trieste's experience as a mirror of the broader European condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MYTHOLOGY
*SOCIOLOGY
*CULTURAL pluralism
*CULTURAL identity
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14649365
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social & Cultural Geography
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 37208306
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360902756655