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European Cultural Borders: between the Identity of the European Space and the Community Policies
Le frontiere culturali europee: tra l’identita dello spazio europeo e le politiche comunitarie
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Abstract
The image of the European culture is given by the association of the concepts people – culture – history – territory, which provides certain local features. From this relation, we identify a cultural area with local, regional and national features beyond a certain European culture. Thus, we identify... view more
The image of the European culture is given by the association of the concepts people – culture – history – territory, which provides certain local features. From this relation, we identify a cultural area with local, regional and national features beyond a certain European culture. Thus, we identify at least two cultural identity constructions on the European level: a culture of cultures, that is a cultural area with a particular, local, regional and national strong identity, or a cultural archipelago, that is a common yet disrupted cultural area. Whatever the perspective, the existence of a European cultural area cannot be denied, although one may speak of diversity or of “disrupted continuity”. The paper is a survey on the European cultural space in two aspects: 1. Europe with internal cultural border areas; 2. Europe as external cultural-identity border area. From a methodological point of view, we have to point out that despite the two-levelled approach the two conceptual constructions do not exclude each other: the concept of “culture of cultures” designs both a particular and a general identity area. The specific of the European culture is provided precisely by diversity and multiculturalism as means of expression on local, regional, or national levels. Consequently, the European cultural area is an area with a strong identity on both particular and general levels.... view less
Keywords
Europe; cultural diversity; EU; cultural relations; intercultural factors; globalization
Classification
European Politics
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Collection Title
The Historian’s Atelier: Sources, Methods, Interpretations
Editor
Şipoş, Sorin; Moisa, Gabriel; Brie, Mircea; Sfrengeu, Florin; Gumenâi, Ion
Conference
The Historian’s Atelier: Sources, Methods, Interpretations, 2011
Document language
Italian
Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Academia Română, Centrul de Studii Transilvane
City
Cluj-Napoca
Page/Pages
p. 107-126
ISBN
978-973-7784-84-1
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution