Crossing European Boundaries Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories [Paperback]

At the turn of the millennium the state of Europe is fluid and contested, yet how this affects the everyday lives of European peoples and the ways they experience the social world they live in remains largely unexplored. Drawing upon ethnographic information from diverse European settings, this volume points to the contradictions that the project of a Europe without boundaries involves. In illustrating how the removal of political boundaries can create other boundaries, the articles in this volume provide alternatives to recent theorising on complexity, which takes little account of human agency.

Jaro Staculwas awarded his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales, Swansea, and currently lectures at Roehampton University, London. Berghahn Books also published his The Bounded Field: Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley (2003).

Christina Moutsoureceived her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and has been working on Greek-Turkish relations, cosmopolitanism and the European Union. She is Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and a fully qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Currently she is working on the links between anthropology and psychotherapy.

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1.Crossing European Boundaries: Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories
Jaro Stacul,Christina MoutsouandHelen Kopnina

PART I: INSTITUTIONAL CROSSINGS

Chapter 2.Crossing Boundaries through Education: European Schools and the Supersession of Nationalism
Cris ShoreandDaniela Baratieri

Chapter 3.Neo-Liberal Nationalism: Ethnic Integration and Estonias Accession to the European Union
Gregory Feldman

Chapter 4.The European Left and the New Immigrations: The Cal#µ