Search for dissertations about: "european identity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 86 swedish dissertations containing the words european identity.

  1. 1. Europeans only? : essays on identity politics and the European Union

    Author : Peo Hansen; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; European identity; European Union; European Commission; identity politics; discourse; discourse analysis; immigration; immigrants; ethnic minorities; culture; ethno-culturalism; citizenship; European citizenship; education; exclusion inclusion; neo-liberalism; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The chief preoccupation of the dissertation revolves around the European Union's project of calling forth a collective sense of "European identity" amongst people in the Union. It focuses specifically on how the European Union's identity politics plays out once the ethnic minorities with immigrant background now living in the Union are brought into view. READ MORE

  2. 2. European Mobility and Spatial Belongings : Greek and Latvian migrants in Sweden

    Author : Vasileios Petrogiannis; Karin Borevi; Norbert Götz; Jussi Kurunmäki; Peo Hansen; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration; intra-European migration; European mobility; national identity; European identity; regional identity; belonging; macro-regions; Baltic Sea; Mediterranean; Latvia; Greece; Sweden; migration; intra-europeisk migration; europeisk mobilitet; nationell identitet; europeisk identitet; regional identitet; tillhörighet; makro-regioner; Östersjön; Medelhavet; Lettland; Grekland; Sverige; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : Nation-states and national identities are a product of European history and have been the most salient framework of spatial identification since the nineteenth century. In the past decades, however, the EU has attempted to foster a supplementary European sense of identity, embodied in the notion of European citizenship. READ MORE

  3. 3. A European State of Mind : Rhetorical Formations of European Identity within the EU 1973–2014

    Author : Louise Schou Therkildsen; Mats Rosengren; Jon Viklund; Orla Vigsø; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; constitutive rhetoric; collective identity formation; the European Union; European identity; rhetorical studies; close reading; Rhetoric; Retorik;

    Abstract : European identity has become a central issue in the EU’s political imaginary. In recent years, European identity—and related notions of a European destiny, European culture, and a European narrative—has been deployed as a weapon against the rise of the political far-right across Europe. READ MORE

  4. 4. A European foreign policy? : role conceptions and the politics of identity in Britain, France and Germany

    Author : Lisbeth Aggestam; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Britain; CFSP; constructivism; European order; European union EU ; foreign policy; France; Germany; identity; integration; role theory; security; state; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

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  5. 5. Learning to Be (come) A Good European : A Critical Analysis of the Official European Union Discourse on European Identity and Higher Education

    Author : Jonna Johansson; Geoffrey Gooch; Juliet Lodge; Sweden Linköping Linköping University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; identity; higher education; Unity in diversity ; European Dimension ; language; citizenship; activity; mobility; neo-liberalism; competitiveness; Knowledge economy ; flexibility; Lifelong learning ;

    Abstract : During the year 2007, when this thesis was completed, the European Union could look backat fifty years of collaboration, which began with the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957and which has developed from being mainly economic in character to incorporating a politicalas well as a social dimension at the European level. In 2007 the European Union alsocommemorated the twentieth anniversary of Erasmus, its higher education mobilityprogramme. READ MORE