Negotiating Europe ― Eu Promotion of Europeanness Since the 1950s

The book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of belonging to the European Union. It demonstrates that the promotion of Europeanness at the EU level does not constitute an overarching identity policy that imposes a homogenous interpretation of European identity. Rather, it is a process of negotiation in which various entrepreneurs of Europeanness within and outside the EU institutions invent and communicate representations of Europe. Both the negotiation and the multilayered representations of Europe that it produces are investigated through three case studies: the academia and the historians, European heritage, and the iconography of the euro.

Oriane Calligaro is Lecturer in European Studies at the Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence. Her research focuses on the symbolic construction and legitimation of the European Union and on the European Union's action in the academic and cultural fields. Her work has been published, among others, in the book The Cultural Politics of Europe: European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s edited by Kiran Klaus Patel (2012) and in Politique europeenne (n°37/2012, Special Issue: European Memory in Action).