Establishing a Constitution for Europe during European Union enlargement? Visions of ‘Europe’ in the referenda campaigns in France and the Netherlands

A “Europe des Nations”: far right imaginative geographies and the politicization of cultural crisis on Twitter in Western Europe

“…Both frames and imaginative geographies are key concepts in critical geopolitics and popular geopolitics, fields that explore the intersection of how the content and materiality of discursive communities are refracted through geopolitics (Sharp 1993;Ingram 2008;Dittmer 2010). For example, Mamadouh (2009) deploys imaginative geography to understand public debates and voting patterns in France and the Netherlands, showing that focus is placed on 'who belongs' to Europe in debates on the widening and deepening of the European Union, involving both discursive frames about migrants' alterity and imaginaries of what -and who -counts as European.…”

“…Media play an important role in imaginaries of Europe, and crisis has remained an important feature for media in Western Europe (Caiani and Guerra 2017;de Vreese 2007). Constructions of crisis are embedded in social practices in radio, television, news broadcasts, print media, and popular culture, and have been an area of investigation into the political geographies of Europeanization (Bialasiewicz et al 2009;Mamadouh 2009;Moisio et al 2013;Mamadouh and Bialasiewicz 2016). With the growth of support for far right parties and the populist radical right focusing on cultural identity (van Elsas and van der Brug 2015; Börzel and Risse 2018; Kneuer 2019), these imaginaries are important to understanding how public spheres affect European integration.…”

Notes on spatial transformation in post-Cold War Europe and the territory work of the European Union

“…Such groupings often operate with competing articulations and understandings of "EUrope" (see e.g. Feakins & Bialasiewicz, 2006;Mamadouh, 2009). Consider, for instance, some the political groupings in the member states, ranging through Italy, Sweden, Great Britain, Hungary and Finland, which often "flag the nation" by lumping together European integration and the threat of immigration (see Triandafyllidou et al, 2009).…”

Mapping the political geographies of Europeanization

“…Some of these movements are indeed only capable of existing and operating through the very same ‘Europeanized’ political processes (such as the European Parliament elections) against which they argue and position themselves (see Triandafyllidou et al, 2009). A contextual analysis of these ‘radical’ movements would significantly increase knowledge of Europeanization and its operation in different geographical and temporal contexts, as such groupings often operate with competing articulations and understandings of ‘EU’rope (see, for example, Feakins and Bialasiewicz, 2006; Mamadouh, 2009). For instance, far right political groupings in Member States ranging from Italy and Sweden to Great Britain and Hungary are increasingly lumping together European integration and the ‘threat of immigration’ as a ‘national’ issue (see Triandafyllidou et al, 2009).…”