Europeanisation and hibernicisation : Ireland and Europe / edited by Cathal McCall and Thomas M. Wilson

• Superior document: European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics 28
• TeilnehmendeR: McCall, Cathal; Wilson, Thomas M.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly examining the importance of European integration and Europeanisation to changing notions of local, regional, national and supranational identity in Europe. As part of this interest, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists and others have paid particular attention to the roles which EU policies and initiatives have played in the construction of local, regional and national identity in Europe, and in the reframing of various forms of culture. This volume provides the first multidisciplinary look at the impact of European integration and Europeanisation on changing culture and identity in one member state of the EU, namely Ireland (including the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), and the first such look at the ways in which the cultures and identities of a member state have had an impact on various versions of 'Europe', in and outside of the EU.

Table of Contents

Intro -- EUROPEAN STUDIES: An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics -- Contents -- Authors in this volume -- Europeanisation and Hibernicisation: An Introduction -- Renarrating Irish Politics in a European Context -- Becoming European: National Identity, Sovereignty and Europeanisation in Irish Political Culture -- 'For Mutual Benefit': Irish Official Discourse on Europeanisation and Hibernicisation -- Assessing the Europeanisation Dimension of the National Anti-poverty Strategy in Ireland -- Northern Ireland and the EU: Europeanisation and Hibernisation? -- The EU and 'Normal Politics' in Northern Ireland -- Deliberative Fora and European Integration: What can Europe Learn from the Irish Experience? -- Gaelic Games, Identity and the Irish Diaspora in Europe -- United in Whiteness? Irishness, Europeanness and the Emergence of a 'White Europe' Policy -- Europe Between Political Folklore and National Populism: Poles Apart?.