Bulletin n. 3/2011
February 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Jones Shannon, Subotic Jelena
    Fantasies of power: Performing Europeanization on the European periphery
    in European Journal of Cultural Studies , Volume 14, No. 5, October 2011 ,  2011 ,  542-557
    This article offers a fresh look at contemporary processes of Europeanization. Using the Eurovision Song Contest as empirical illustration of how states perform Europeanization, this article makes three principal arguments. First, it challenges optimistic accounts of cultural Europeanization and identifies the limits that the Europeanization project faces. Second, it proposes that the process of Europeanization is fundamentally a process of political imagination. How states choose to Europeanize, which attributes of Europe they accept and which ones they reject are shaped by what they imagine Europe to be and what they imagine their role in Europe is. Third, it argues that European states with uncertain or transitional identities on the European ‘periphery’ use performative symbols, such as carnivals, festivals or cultural events to express their fantasies about power and equality within the international system.
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