Narratives 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.

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Narratives 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. 

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Narratives 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. 

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Narratives 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.

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