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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
[collection article]

Brie, Mircea
Horga, Ioan

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


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