Narrating “Europe”: A contested imagined community

No 66, 2019/4 - 210 pages

Special Report: Narrating “Europe”: A contested imagined community

Pages 6 to 14

Introduction to the Special Issue

By Alvaro Oleart, Astrid Van Weyenberg

Pages 16 to 42

The narrative struggle for the signification of “Europe” in the context of the TTIP negotiations: the European Aegis narrative vs transnational populism

By Alvaro Oleart, Luis Bouza García

Pages 44 to 71

“Europe” on Display: A postcolonial reading of the House of European History1

By Astrid Van Weyenberg

Pages 72 to 94

The witty Briton stands up to the European bully. How a populist myth helped the British Eurosceptics to win the 2016 EU referendum

Pages 96 to 119

The Heroes and Villains of an Alternative Europe – How EU Contestation shapes Narratives of Europe in Germany1

By Maximilian Conrad, Helga Kristín Hallgrímsdóttir, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly

Pages 120 to 149

Speaking for “the European people”? How the transnational alliance Fortress Europe constructs a populist counter-narrative to European integration

Pages 150 to 168

Narrating into Europe: Female Migrant Writers’ Voice and Representation

By Jesse van Amelsvoort

Pages 170 to 193

The social imaginary of precarious Europeans: the cultural representation of European socio-economic precarity in Tascha and Bande de Filles

By Margriet van der Waal

Critical readings

Pages 196 to 200

Amandine Crespy, L’Europe sociale, acteurs, politiques, débats, Bruxelles, Éditions de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, 2019, 310 pages.

By Jean-Claude Barbier

Pages 202 to 207

Maja Kluger Dionigi, Lobbying in the European Parliament. The battle for influence, London, Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, 2017, 199 pages.