New Europe: Imagined Spaces

Description

The book contributes to key debates, such as the emerging Europe of the regions and the return of the city-state, examines the "rebranding" of the nation-state and explores the impact of "Europeanization" on existing place identity. Emphasizing mobility and movement, the chapters explore borderlands and travel, and also include a detailed discussion of the "everyday life" of Europeans. Throughout, iconic images of contemporary Europe are invoked - Eurodisney, the Reichstag, Barcelona's Ramblas and the Bilbao Guggenheim, and the way in which mundane artefacts and practices such as football, walking, cars, food, passports and the Euro help construct identity is considered. This book adopts a mulitdisciplinary approach to studying Europe, providing a sound basis for further, more detailed exploration of contemporary European space and place identity.

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).

This book tackles exactly the issues we explore! -- Dr M Kneafsey, Coventry University, UK 20040726 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 20040726 An excellent and contemporary intercultural study - accessible to non specialists and imaginative in approach. -- Dr Morgan, Anglia Polytechnic University 20050817