National and European identity

Pryke, Sam

doi:10.1080/14608944.2019.1590808

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“…Our analyses confirm that European identity does not necessarily translate to identification with the European Union as an institutional actor or protector of rights (see Castiglione, 2009; Cmeciu and Manolache, 2018; Pryke, 2020). The importance of the European Union featured indirectly in the narratives and concentrated on freedom of mobility and the importance of relating to familiar others in a borderless Europe (e.g.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 53%

What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

Bogacki

Botterill

Burrell

et al. 2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This article takes the concept of spatial imaginaries to explore how the post-Brexit negotiations shifted meanings of ‘Europe’ for Polish migrants residing in Scotland. A flourishing subfield of ‘Brexit geographies’ has explored the meaning and consequences of Brexit (as an event, process and affect) for wide-ranging communities on the move and in place. Yet, the question of how ‘Europe’, and in particular ‘EUrope’, is being re-imagined and re-constituted by EU migrants residing in uncertain political spaces remains understudied. In this article, we address this lacuna through analysis of biographical narrative interviews and spatial mapping exercises. In doing so, we conduct a multi-scalar analysis of Polish migrants’ discursive and visual representations of EUrope, defined both as a geographical and institutional space. The study is spatially and temporally situated at a particular time and place in the Brexit timeline – the summer of 2019 in rural and urban Scotland. At this time, Brexit negotiations were ongoing, there was widespread uncertainty about the consequences for migrants in the United Kingdom, and, in Scotland particularly, much resistance to leaving the European Union. The article argues that while Brexit might have not affected European identity among Polish migrants in Scotland, it has prompted them to reconsider their place in Europe and to reimagine both the geographical and conceptual parameters of EUrope.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 53%

What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

Bogacki

Botterill

Burrell

et al. 2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…Polish only), compared to 2% who saw themselves as ‘European only’, with an additional 8% choosing the option ‘European and (nationality)’ (meaning European first but also national) and 55% ‘(nationality) and European’ (2% answered ‘don’t know’ or refused to answer the question; Eurobarometer, 2019: 46). Some authors see those and similar results as indicating high levels of European identifications: after all, in total, 65% of the 2019 Eurobarometer respondents saw themselves as European to some extent (Pryke, 2020; Wellings and Power, 2015). Others, however, interpret the results as indicating the weakness of European identity, noting that only a small minority of people strongly identify as Europeans (Pichler, 2008) and that for many others, European identity is shallow (Polyakova and Fligstein, 2016), lite (Risse, 2010) or fragile (Castells, 2018).…”

Section: European Identifications: Queer Europeans In Troubling Timesmentioning

confidence: 64%

Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option

Szulc

2021

Sociology

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Europe has recently become closely associated with LGBTQ rights. It remains unclear, however, what is the role of this association in everyday European imaginations and identifications. Empirical research on European identity hardly ever discusses the role of LGBTQ rights. Nor do we know much about European identifications of LGBTQ people themselves. In this article, I address those gaps from the perspective of Polish LGBTQs in the UK. Drawing on 30 interviews from a recent two-year research project, I discuss my participants’ European imaginations and identifications by developing the concepts of ‘uncanny Europe’ and ‘protective Europeanness’. I show how my participants tend to view Europe as ‘diverse’, ‘open’ and ‘tolerant’, while attributing those characteristics exclusively to Western Europe. I also demonstrate that they tend to readily identify as European in the context of increasingly hostile national identities, with the increasing anti-Polish xenophobia in the UK and growing anti-LGBTQ discrimination in Poland.

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“…Long-term analyses of European identity from 1973 to 1992 (Anderson & Kaltenhaler, 1996) and 1992 to 2012 (Luhmann, 2017(Luhmann, : 1379 found an enduring (and positive) synergy between European and national identities. In the same period, Laura Cram's research outlined the phenomenon she called 'Banal Europeanism' (Cram, 2009) and Sam Pryke later called 'Europeanism' -as opposed to a 'European nationalism' (Pryke, 2020). These analyses reprised the older neo-functionalist expectation that a new European identity would emerge as citizens of member states realised that their political efforts were best directed at the emergent European level of governance.…”

Section: European Disintegrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nationalism and European disintegration

Wellings

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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The politics of the European Union's crises of the 2010s required the emergence of analyses and theorisation that sought to explain the possibility of European disintegration. This article makes a conceptual contribution to the emerging literature on European disintegration by arguing for the inclusion of nationalism as an important—yet under‐represented—variable in the politics and process of disintegration in the European Union. It draws together elements of enduring value in classical explanations of the rise and operation of nationalism in Europe from Ernest Gellner, Tom Nairn and John Breuilly, with a postfunctionalist emphasis on the politicisation of European Union politics at the member‐state level. The article concludes that a consideration of nationalism illuminates the process and politics of European disintegration by showing that the politics of European integration in the 2010s created nationalism rather than contained it, as it had been historically designed to do.

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National and European identity

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option

Nationalism and European disintegration

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