Introduction to the construction and the interplay of European, national and ethnic identities in Central and Eastern Europe

Waechter, Natalia

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“…The individual socio-economic background seems especially decisive for European identity (Risse, 2015). Waechter (2016) shows that also for minority groups in the EU, the socio-economic situation drives European identity formation. European identity also increases with higher levels of education that is highly correlated with socio-economic status (Ceka & Sojka, 2016;Curtis, 2016;Mitchell, 2015;Risse, 2015;Verhaegen & Hooghe, 2015;Verhaegen et al, 2017;Westle & Buchheim, 2016).…”

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“…European identity also increases with higher levels of education that is highly correlated with socio-economic status (Ceka & Sojka, 2016;Curtis, 2016;Mitchell, 2015;Risse, 2015;Verhaegen & Hooghe, 2015;Verhaegen et al, 2017;Westle & Buchheim, 2016). Similarly, knowledge (Ceka & Sojka, 2016;Curtis, 2016;Mitchell, 2015;Verhaegen & Hooghe, 2015) and information (Bruter, 2003;Di Mauro & Fiket, 2017;Waechter, 2016) about the EU and politics increases the likelihood to have a European identity.…”

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Fostering European Identity

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Over recent years, the concept of ‘European identity’ has received increasing scholarly attention. Despite this progress, political initiatives to foster a shared feeling of Europeanness still appear to be designed largely ad hoc. This contribution aims at providing a link between the existing state of knowledge and policy approaches to promote European identity. With a target group perspective, we develop a classification of measures to promote European identity. This classification is based on the distinctions between a ‘civic’ and a ‘cultural’ European identity. Within this framework, we assess seven proposals: transnational party lists for the European Parliament, an EU Citizens’ Assembly, EU consular offices, a Pensioners’ Erasmus, a ‘European Waltz’ program, an EU public service broadcaster, and a European bank holiday. We conclude that current identity strategies suffer from too narrow target groups that already tend to have a European perspective.

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“…This paper will not delve into the debates revolving around the definitions of identity. For the sake of simplicity, I will adopt Natalia Waechter's (2016, p. 631) definition, which refers to identity as the core concepts for ‘describing people's feelings of belonging and of who they are and how they see themselves’. Theories of identities usually fall into three categories: primordialism, instrumentalism, and constructivism.…”

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“…This concept can be particularly relevant when we talk about immigrant communities who identify with their home countries and their current country of residence. One of the two identities may become more salient depending on the situation they face at a given moment in their daily lives (Waechter, 2016). Empirical, qualitative evidence in this paper shows that members of the tribes in Syria used to relate to their tribal identity and to the national identity simultaneously in what I called above ‘dialectical symbiosis’ during Hafez al‐Assad's reign.…”

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The end of the dialectical symbiosis of national and tribal identities in Syria

Dukhan¹

2021

Nations and Nationalism

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Since the 1970s, the Syrian regime has been attempting to build a ‘Syrian national identity’ to promote identification with the Syrian state (al hawiyya al‐wataniyya) while concurrently following policies of survival and legitimisation, to preclude suppressing tribal identity (al hawiyya al‐asha'rya). The regime instead fostered tribal identity and relied on it when confronting internal and external challenges. The Syrian regime's policies aimed to empower tribal identity, while seeking to manipulate this perception for its own ends. As a result, tribal and national identities have been integrated in a relatively harmonious way for three decades. The economic liberalisation project that Bashar al‐Assad pursued, however, disturbed the delicate balance that Hafez al‐Assad had constructed between the national and tribal identities. In the wake of the Syrian uprising, it has become clear that tribal identity was a significant element in the conflict that engulfed the country, shaping local politics and influencing social dynamics in north eastern Syria and parts of the south. Over the past few years, tribal identity has become a powerful form of expression in Syria, which is increasingly evolving to replace its national counterpart. This paper will use a constructivist approach, which argues that tribal identity has its roots in the origins of the tribes but has been subject to external manipulation by political actors in their struggles for power. In Syria, as in other states, such actions carry the risk of civil war, precipitating degrees of state failure (Hashemi, 2015) in which the tribal and national identities clash.

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“…This group located in the boarder region between Europe and Russia is particularly relevant for researching identities. The young people of the Russian ethnic minority in Latvia is of special interest since there is a reason to assume that they have multiple identities ( Bauman, 2004 ; Waechter, 2016 ), i.e., regional, ethnic, national and religious at the same time. Furthermore, those identities are believed to be intertwined ( Risse, 2010 ; Delanty, 2003 ).…”

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Identity Multiplicity in an Ethnic and Religious Minority in Latvia: Old Believer Youth

Stašulāne

2021

Front. Sociol.

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The paper explores the relationship between the religious identity and the ethnic and national identities of Old Believer youth in Latvia. This case is of particular interest in providing an in-depth insight into the intersection of ethnicity, nationality and religion, as the Old Believers are an ethnic and religious minority living in Latvia. Applying the concepts of multiple identities, this article explores the role of religion played in the integration of identity among young people belonging to the Old Believer religious community: their self-understanding as a composition of intersecting identities that influence each other; the manifestations of the intersection of various identities; the relationship of identity integration to religion. The analysis is based on the findings of ethnographic research conducted in the Old Believer youth group in Daugavpils (Latvia) within a framework of the international project “Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe’s Future”, funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No. 770464. The author has highlighted that today’s rapid changes are leading to identity crisis: an individual faces difficulty in shaping and maintaining a stable identity, since economic life is becoming increasingly unpredictable and communities are becoming fragmented. The identity of Latvian Old Believer youth forms and develops in a local cultural context, and is affected by the social change. The qualitative data collected during the fieldwork provided a useful resource for an analysis of belonging, the crucial factor in the formation of identity for Old Believer youth. As the voices of young people in this study reveal, three types of belonging characterize Old Believer youth: their ethnicity, which interacts with national belonging in a complex way; the local belonging, which is stronger than the global one; the European belonging, which conflicts with national belonging and ethnicity.

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Introduction to the construction and the interplay of European, national and ethnic identities in Central and Eastern Europe

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Fostering European Identity

Fostering European Identity

The end of the dialectical symbiosis of national and tribal identities in Syria

Identity Multiplicity in an Ethnic and Religious Minority in Latvia: Old Believer Youth

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