‘Debating Europe’ Platform – A Means of Crafting Online Representations of a European Identity

Cmeciu, Camelia; Cmeciu, Doina

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.08.216

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“…As stated in a 2006 report on European communication policy, ‘communicating about the role of the EU in the world is an effective way to engage Europe’s own citizens as well as to enhance support and understanding of the EU in the rest of the world’ (Commission of the European Communities, 2006: 11). This applies even more so in a period when the stability of the EU is threatened by anti-European movements and European citizens that express skepticism toward European identity politics (Cmeciu and Cmeciu, 2014: 196). In this climate, (inter)government-led campaigns such as The Family Meal play a crucial role in justifying political entities like the EU, whose existence is extensively debated as a consequence of Brexit and the 2017 elections in European countries where Eurosceptic parties played an important role.…”

Section: Successional Campaigning In the Neoliberal Agementioning

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The neoliberal workings of The Family Meal campaign: Unfortunate others, European citizens, and the branding of the EU

Oomen

Martens

Piccoli

2020

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Due to increased privatization of development assistance, humanitarian communication is usually considered to be the domain of non-governmental organizations. However, (inter)governmental and (supra)national institutions still play an important role in development assistance. Notably, the European Union has become a leading development actor globally – and also actively brands itself as such. In this process of branding, the European Union not only celebrates its empathic recognition of vulnerable non-European Others, but also aims to promote a sense of European citizenship. In this article, we examine this process in the context of The Family Meal, a 2014 awareness campaign on food assistance led by the Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department of the European Commission. We argue that the campaign reflects both the logic of neoliberal humanitarianism and the quest for European citizenship. To develop our argument, we will assess The Family Meal in three steps. First, we discuss how the campaign mimicked post-humanitarian tendencies in non-governmental campaigns aimed at raising funds. Second, we demonstrate how The Family Meal not only reported on (helping) non-European Others, but also, and importantly, promoted a sense of European belonging. Finally, we introduce the concept of successional campaigns – that is, campaigns that follow up on the action taken rather than preceding it – to show that The Family Meal largely appeared as the result of the neoliberal trend toward administering accountability and branding organizations. Altogether, we consider the campaign, with the neoliberal branding of the European Union and its citizens at its center, as emblematic for humanitarian communication within the rise of New Public Management in the 21st century.

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Section: Successional Campaigning In the Neoliberal Agementioning

confidence: 99%

The neoliberal workings of The Family Meal campaign: Unfortunate others, European citizens, and the branding of the EU

Oomen

Martens

Piccoli

2020

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Analysis of Methodological Strategies Concerning the Concept of Ethnic Identity

Lunov,

Martynenko

2020

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The article states that ethnic identity determines the formation of ethnic communities within the phenomenon of ethnic diversity in a multicultural world. The author has chosen a research model based on assumptions discussed around Latin panettone. This study states that parenting identity is based not on a "transplanted" cultural heritage, but on situating and collective action that transcends expressive national and cultural identities. The analyzed studies show that ethnic identity is determined procedurally, serving as a way for individuals to psychologically position themselves in relation to one or more social systems. It is noted that the issue of ethnic identification is appropriate to consider from the standpoint of diversification and evaluation. Most researchers interpreting the phenomenon of ethnic diversification correlate their findings with the presence of representatives from different peoples and cultures within one ethno-political or ethno-social education, based on the ethnic origin of their members. The phenomenon of ethnic diversification is often presented in terms such as "multiculturalism," "ethnic and cultural pluralism," "bagatelle," "multiethnicity," and "polyethnicity." The article explores three directions of ethno-political management and presents the question of ethnic identity as a problem related to migration and diaspora.

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‘Debating Europe’ Platform – A Means of Crafting Online Representations of a European Identity

Cited by 2 publications

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The neoliberal workings of The Family Meal campaign: Unfortunate others, European citizens, and the branding of the EU

The neoliberal workings of The Family Meal campaign: Unfortunate others, European citizens, and the branding of the EU

Analysis of Methodological Strategies Concerning the Concept of Ethnic Identity

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