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Becoming Europeans: cultural identity and cultural policies
2011
by Monica Sassatelli, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 248 pp., £52.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780230537422 In her introduction, Monica Sassatelli remarks that her book concentrates on the explicit i...
Rhetoric of unity and cultural diversity in the making of European cultural identity
2011
The fundamental aim of the cultural policy of the European Union (EU) is to emphasize the obvious cultural diversity of Europe, while looking for some underlying common elements which unify the various cultures in Europe. Through these common elements, the EU policy produces ‘an imagined cultural community’ of Europe which is ‘united in diversity’, as one of the slogans of the Union states. This discourse characterizes various documents which are essential to the EU cultural policy, such as the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Agenda for Culture and the EU’s decision on the European Capital of Culture program. In addition, the discourse is applied to the production of cultural events in Europ…