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Berghahn Books Crossing European Boundaries Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories 2005 Edition by Jaro Stacul, Christina Moutsou, Helen Kopnina
At the turn of the millennium the state of Europe is fluid and contested, yet how this affects the everyday lives of European peoples and the ways they experience the social world they live in remains largely unexplored. Drawing upon ethnographic information from diverse European settings, this volume points to the contradictions that the project of a "Europe without boundaries" involves. In illustrating how the removal of political boundaries can create other boundaries, the articles in this volume provide alternatives to recent theorising on complexity, which takes little account of human agency. Table of contents :- List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Crossing European Boundaries: Beyond Conventional Geographical CategoriesJaro Stacul, Christina Moutsou and Helen KopninaPART I: INSTITUTIONAL CROSSINGSChapter 2. Crossing Boundaries through Education: European Schools and the Supersession of NationalismCris Shore and Daniela BaratieriChapter 3. Neo-Liberal Nationalism: Ethnic Integration and Estonia's Accession to the European UnionGregory FeldmanChapter 4. The European Left and the New Immigrations: The Case of ItalyDavide PeroPART II: THE EXPERIENCE OF IMMIGRATIONChapter 5. The Grand Old West: Mythical Narratives of a Better Past before 1989 in Views of West-Berlin Youth from Immigrant FamiliesSabine MannitzChapter 6. Invisible Community: Russians in London and AmsterdamHelen KopninaChapter 7. Merging European Boundaries: A Stroll in BrusselsChristina MoutsouChapter 8. Bosnian Women in Mallorca: Migration as a Precarious Balancing ActJacqueline WaldrenPART III: LOCALISING EUROPEChapter 9. Claiming the Local in the Irish/British Borderlands: Locality, Nation-State and the Disruption of BoundariesWilliam F. Kelleher, Jr.Chapter 10. Boundary Formation and Identity Expression in Everyday Interactions: Muslim Minorities in GreeceVenetia EvergetiChapter 11. Negotiating European and National Identity Boundaries in a Village in Northern GreeceEleftheria DeltsouChapter 12. Claiming a 'European Ethos' at the Margins of the Italian Nation-StateJaro StaculNotes on ContributorsIndex