Imagine the EU : the metaphorical construction of a supra-nationalist identity

Hülsse, Rainer (avtor)

The European Union (EU) is a novel political entity in many respects. For example, instead of the monolithic political structure of nation-states, it features a layered structure and a 'variable geometry'. This institutional complexity has been interpreted as an indicator of the EU being a post-modern political system. This article inquires whether the EU's institutional post-modernness is accompanied by a post-modern identity. I argue that an investigation of collective identity requires a reconstruction of how a community is imagined. As metaphors are the principal linguistic means of our imagination, I reconstruct the imaginations of the European community by analyzing its metaphorizations. How do the metaphors of EU enlargement construct European identity? It can be shown that in the German EU-enlargementdiscourse of the 1990s, European identity was hardly constructedin a post-national/post-modern way. Rather, European identity was imagined much like a modern national identity.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Vrsta gradiva: Delo ni kategorizirano
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
• Leto izida: 2006
• Št. strani: Str. 396-421
• Številčenje: Vol. 9, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-44743
• UDK: 323.1:061.1EU
• ISSN pri članku: 1408-6980
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25861981
• Datum objave v RUL: 10.07.2015

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Journal of international relations and development
• Skrajšan naslov: J. int. relat. & dev.
• Založnik: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre of International Relations
• ISSN: 1408-6980
• COBISS.SI-ID: 76065792