Protesting is considered a very European thing to do. … But European strikes are almost always about money. … But meanwhile in a little known corner of Europe there is a less mercenary struggle taking place – one that is closer to the spirit of Tahrir Square than Syntagma Square.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Bas Snelders
Read two reports from Bas Snelders: Not the Art of the State but a State of the Art, and a research report tracing new narratives for Europe emerging in the ECF 2008 grants applications.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Jian Shi
A Constructive View with Erasmus Mundus as a Consideration
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Paul Scheffer
In this essay, Paul Scheffer discusses the waning of the European powers at the expense of new economies like Brazil, India, and China, and raises the question how Europe manages to deal with this change. He argues the perception of Europe in the new economies will acquire ever greater significance for European societies. This, according to Scheffer, presents an invitation to write history in a new way.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Monica Sassatelli
Has Europe lost the plot? Europe’s search for a new narrative imagination
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Ranabir Samaddar
Comments by an Indian on the poser “Dwarfing of Europe?...”
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Kerstin Poehls
More and more museums all over Europe have been discovering migration as a topic for temporary exhibitions. In this essay (PDF), Kerstin Poehls discusses how and why this movement of people is being showcased in one of the most immobile but nonetheless influential cultural institutions Europe has produced. She also shows that exhibitions on migration tell several stories at once.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Cristina Pecequilo
Problems such as unemployment, low salaries, loss of economic competitiveness, social tensions let to the definition of this period as the one of a new depression, part of a broader structural change in the world ́s balance of power. These trends were representative of change in Western societies, that seemed to reach the limits of their development and dynamism, which was being expressed by popular protests and the loss of international projection.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Rainer Ohliger
What role do immigrants play in the construction of historical narratives within a uniting Europe? Can the cultural diversity spurred by immigration be included in new European narratives of diversity? What would such broadened historical pictures look like? In this essay (PDF), Rainer Ohliger provides some answers to these questions, which lay behind the project Migrants Moving History: European Narratives of Diversity.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Fokke Obbema
What can we learn from China?
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Thijs van Nimwegen
"We need a recurring character”, someone said. “Like a protagonist”, someone else added. “A recognizable face to be seen in each comic”, a third clarified… In this column, Thijs van Nimwegen gives a lively description of the birth of the comic Osvald and its main protagonist: “He was made by dozens of artists, and his appearance, character, and personal traits are shifting even as we speak. Osvald may therefore represent a whole new generation of the inquisitive antihero – a fluid character, showing different traits, depending on the reader.”
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Silvia Nanclares
Each story develops its own code. And that code is only revealed while the story is being told. It’s not something you can do a priori. So, let’s get started...
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