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 Content
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Crossing European Boundaries: Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories
Jaro Stacul, Christina Moutsou and Helen Kopnina
PART I: INSTITUTIONAL CROSSINGS
Chapter 2. Crossing Boundaries through Education: European Schools and the Supersession of Nationalism
Cris Shore and Daniela Baratieri
Chapter 3. Neo-Liberal Nationalism: Ethnic Integration and Estonia’s Accession to the European Union
Gregory Feldman
Chapter 4. The European Left and the New Immigrations: The Case of Italy
Davide Però
PART II: THE EXPERIENCE OF IMMIGRATION
Chapter 5. The Grand Old West: Mythical Narratives of a Better Past before 1989 in Views of West-Berlin Youth from Immigrant Families
Sabine Mannitz
Chapter 6. Invisible Community: Russians in London and Amsterdam
Helen Kopnina
Chapter 7. Merging European Boundaries: A Stroll in Brussels
Christina Moutsou
Chapter 8. Bosnian Women in Mallorca: Migration as a Precarious Balancing Act
Jacqueline Waldren
PART III: LOCALISING EUROPE
Chapter 9. Claiming the Local in the Irish/British Borderlands: Locality, Nation-State and the Disruption of Boundaries
William F. Kelleher, Jr.
Chapter 10. Boundary Formation and Identity Expression in Everyday Interactions: Muslim Minorities in Greece
Venetia Evergeti
Chapter 11. Negotiating European and National Identity Boundaries in a Village in Northern Greece
Eleftheria Deltsou
Chapter 12. Claiming a ‘European Ethos’ at the Margins of the Italian Nation-State
Jaro Stacul
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Helen Kopnina was awarded her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Currently she lectures at the Vrije Universiteit and the Fashion Institute, Hoogeschool, both in Amsterdam. Her postdoctoral research examines small businesses in Singapore and Malaysia. Her publications include the book East to West Migration (Ashgate 2005).
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