The Construction of a European Identity: A Visual Exploration of the House of European History’s Narratives
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96954-6_11" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96954-6_11</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96954-6_11" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-96954-6_11</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Construction of a European Identity: A Visual Exploration of the House of European History’s Narratives
Original language description
The visual essay analyses the construction of Europeanity in the Brussels-based House of European History, a museum which opened its doors in 2017 and is mostly finance by the European Parliament. With a theoretical framework that distinguishes two dimensions (an essentialist/relationist discursive dimension and a political-spatial/socio-spatial material dimension), the essay combines a discourse-theoretical analysis with an arts-based research driven approach. The latter resulted in the inclusion of 19 photomontages which re-articulate the objects and projections of the permanent exhibition (and the museum shop) and which autonomously reflect on the museum’s construction of Europeanity. Together with the discourse-theoretical analysis of the exhibition (and its Guidebooks from 2019 and 2023), the analysis shows the strong presence of a more relationist discursive dimension, but it also demonstrates the impossibility to escape from more essentialist components, which include the articulation of Europeanity through value discourses, combined with the progressionist approach towards history and the privileging of the state on the one hand, and the (semi-)exclusions of regions that once were Europe, combined with the lack of substantial attention for the European periphery, and its key minorities and indigenous people, on the other hand.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The European Media in the Platform Era
ISBN
978-3-031-96953-9
Number of pages of the result
33
Pages from-to
189-221
Number of pages of the book
283
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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