Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics

FELIX CIUTA is Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Centre of European Politics, Security and Integration, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK GERARD DELANTY is Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK DON ELLIS is Professor of Communication, School of Communication, University of Hartford, USA JAN IFVERSEN is Associate Professor of European Studies and Head of the Institute of History and Area Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark MIRCA MADIANOU is Fellow, Lecturer and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK PETER MILLWARD is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK ERIK RINGMAR is Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan C. CLAIRE THOMSON was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at UCL from 2004 to 2006 RUTH WODAK holds the Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University, UK

This volume brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to discuss the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyse how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.This volume brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to discuss the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyse how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.