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Nation and Supernation: A tale of three Europes

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Europe is everywhere, it, whatever it is, plays a central role in our daily lives. Europe is the object of praise and criticism and the subject of opinion polls and votes. The problem is to know what lies behind this highly polysemous word. If it is a geographical space, then what are its borders? If it is a political, historical, cultural unit, then who is in and who is out? To what extent can it be considered as being a purely symbolic unit. Multiple definitions lead to multiple realities expressed in the media and elsewhere. Asking a European citizen, whoever s/he may be, is likely to produce a confusing answer and suggest the presence in people's mind of multiple Europes. Multiple Europes, like multiple identities, can live alongside each other. Each conceptualisation activates a different schema, possibly even contradictory ones. Consequently, the inevitably confusing answer to the question of Europe may be triggered by an equally ambiguous question if the questioner is not clear as to which of the multiple Europes is being discussed.
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halshs-00725286 , version 1 (24-08-2012)

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Geoffrey Williams, Giuliani Delphine, Piazza Roberta. Nation and Supernation: A tale of three Europes. Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams. European Identity: What the media say, Oxford University Press, pp.55-83, 2012. ⟨halshs-00725286⟩
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