Product Description

New Europe: Imagined Spaces traces the radical transformation of European places and spaces over the last two decades. Instead of the familiar ‘schoolbook’ map of a Europe of nation-states, the book unpacks the differing imaginations of European identity in recent years. Taking as its central problem the fluid nature of cultural and political identity, it moves firmly away from – and calls into question – the perspective of the nation-state as the primary source of imagined identity for Europeans.



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 ‘Europeanisation’ on existing place identity. Emphasising 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.



New Europe: Imagined Spaces adopts a multidisciplinary approach to studying Europe, providing students with an exploration of contemporary European space and place identity. (20050817)

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #423517 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 217 pages

Dr M Kneafsey, Coventry University, UK
This book tackles exactly the issues we explore!

Review
This book tackles exactly the issues we explore! (Dr M Kneafsey, Coventry University, UK )

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

An excellent and contemporary intercultural study - accessible to non specialists and imaginative in approach.

(Dr Morgan, Anglia Polytechnic University )

About the Author
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).

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Customer Reviews

Imaginative, insightful and useful - READ IT!
I read this book whilst studying for my disseration in geography. McNeil raises many unique and fascinating points whilst citing a multitude of relevant and interesting other authors. I used the bok for a cultutral studies based dissertation and used it as one of my key references. It is easy to read and has a nice fluent stlye. I fully reccomend it to any person wanting an interesting and fresh look at the way we 'imagine' (create in our heads through various forms of semiolgy) the space we call Europe.