Here are twelve conferences/workshops and one book launch between 1998 and 2004 supporting several book projects under the umbrella of The Cutural Construction of Community exploring the contradictions of modernity and addressing the question of what keeps modern societies together and what divides them.
The project's aim was to explore the preconditions of European social citizenship given the historical fact that the social dimension of citizenship is deeply entrenched in national histories. What did the expanding market radicalism in the 1990s mean for the preconditions?
Media, elites and civil society : the collective state of the art and historical reports Anna Triandafyllidou and Bo Stråth (eds.), Representations of Europe and the Nation in Current and Prospective Member States: Media, Elites and Civil Society. The Collective...
History, Theory, Prospects Quentin Skinner, Bo Stråth (eds.), States and Citizens. History, Theory, Prospects. Cambridge UP, 2003 Abstract The imminent demise of the nation-state in the face of global capitalism and supra-national agencies has often been predicted,...
Poetic Power and the Politics of Space Ron Robin, Bo Stråth (eds.), Homelands. Poetic Power and the Politics of Space. P.I.E. Lang, Brussels 2003 The team of this book project was a group of some ten Israel and Palestinian historians, and the project's backdrop was...
The object of the interdisciplinary project at the outset was to foster a deeper understanding of why basically similar processes of modernisation have resulted in different problem resolutions. The question of governability and social cohesion and division studied through an analytical focus on language and culture was at the centre of the project.
Under the assumption that domestic and European components constitute national identities, the aim of the project was to analyse and compare the combination of national-cum-European
components in national identities and representations of Europe and the EU with a special reference to the role of the media in their (trans)formation.
Mikael af Malmborg, Bo Stråth (eds.), The Meaning of Europe. Variety and Contention within and among Nations. Berg Publishers, Oxford 2002 Abstract Mention the word Europe in today's society, and you are greeted with a range of responses, from impassioned debate to...
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historians when they in retrospect, analyse what has happened. Cultural and historical heritages play a role but in what direction they affect actions is an open question. With a focus on politics and practices of immigration, the project explored the role of culture and traditions in the meeting with the immigrats, comparing how four national administrations developed practices in response to the same problem and the same rule-setting framework.
At border checkpoints, political and military power merge and the state monopoly of violence is made evident to those who intend to pass and those just standing by. There, the territory is demarcated, and this demarcation is enforced; enlightenment ideas of universal freedom and equality are shattered, and there is little rational justification for why the jurisdiction of one state should end and another begin. Why not one or twenty meters to the right or left? The seminar series at EUI 2001-2002 organized by James Kaye, Willfried Spohn, Bo Stråth and Anna Triandafyllidou was a forum for the EU framework programme projects IAPASIS and EURONAT.
