What Is the European Union? A Cultural Shared Risk Community!

Autor: Peter Pichler
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Contemporary European Research, Vol 16, Iss 3 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1815-347X
DOI: 10.30950/jcer.v16i3.1085
Popis: In this commentary, the author continues his first reflections on European Union cultural history, which opened up this field and introduced the theory of ‘paradoxical coherence’. Revisiting sociological and cultural-historical works by Beck and Gumbrecht, he argues that the EU can be seen as a ‘cultural shared risk community’, the sources of identity-building and sense-making consisting of the European citizens’ shared cultural risks and fears. From this he suggests a new agenda for cultural-historical research on the EU.
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