Five ways of deconstructing Europe

Almond, İan

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“…But as Ian Almond has argued, trying to empirically disprove the validity of the concepts by showing transgressions, commonalities and interdependencies might be caught up in: strategies of commonality [that] fail to enter the interiority of the European game, they fail to address why it needs words like 'Europe' in the first place; they assume all the important things to do are on the outsidenarratives to revise, facts to recheck, new evidence to push forward. (Almond 2014) The 'European game' is also institutionalized in other ways than just in the nominal Europe. 'Islam in Europe' is also played out through project calls, research funding and other institutional arenas (Amir-Moazami 2018).…”

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Integration of Islam in Europe: Categorical Remarks

Grinell

2020

European Review

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One of the most frequently described cultural borders in European public discourse is that between Europe and Islam. Further to which, there are many concerns as to whether Islam can be integrated into Europe. This article argues that it is impossible to understand the real and imagined problems addressed in the ‘integration of Islam in Europe’ debate using the categories ‘Islam’ and ‘Europe’. The question of categories is addressed through Bourdieu’s critique of journalism’s influence on research, leading to questions about suitable criteria of demarcation and meaningful terminologies. The route goes via classical theorists of science, such as Carnap, Popper and Kuhn, to Ricoeur, Said and Connolly. Some segments of the modern genealogy of the category of Islam in European studies are also touched upon. The article ends with a call for unpopular categories as an escape from the popular and political frames of debate.

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Integration of Islam in Europe: Categorical Remarks

Grinell

2020

European Review

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“…For example, Almond [2013] presents five strategies for deconstructing the idea of 'Europe' by undermining the notion that it is a self-contained space -a key assumption underlying the 'Clash Thesis' -and which might be extended to 'The World': (1) Re-origination (alienating Europe's origins); (2) re-configuration (splitting it into alternative topographies); (3) provincialization/de-universalization (reducing it to just another language game); (4) fissuring through internal Othering (revealing its internal differences); and (5) strategies of commonality (showing how many of its features spill over into adjacent cultural spaces). It should be noted that Almond ultimately remain skeptical about the success of any such purely discursive move.…”

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Islam Between Inclusion and Exclusion: A (Decolonial) Frame Problem

Ali

2017

The Future Information Society

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“…I recognize that the idea of Europe is a contested one (Nielsen, 2010;Almond, 2014), as is the idea that there might be anything that could accurately be described as European literature, unless it is composed of the individual literatures of European nations. Pascale Casanova, reflecting on a conference on European literature sponsored by the European Science Foundation, rejects the definition of European literature as a 'juxtaposition of already constituted national literatures' (2009: 126) and argues instead that European literature should be seen as 'the story of the rivalries, struggles and power relations between these national literatures'.…”

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Literature of immigration as a literature of Europe

Schneider

2016

Journal of European Studies

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Any understanding of European literature that does not include immigrant literature results in an incomplete vision of literature created in Europe. As immigrant writers have sought to find a place for themselves and their writing, the labels attached to that writing have been crucial. While such debates certainly have to do with the writers themselves and how they seek to have their writing read, they also reflect an anxiety in Europe about what counts as European literature and, not incidentally, who counts as European. To examine these issues, this article takes the example of the work of Franco-Turkish writer Sema Kılıçkaya. In contrast to the usual French fear of communautarisme, which signals for many the fragmentation of society along ethnic and religious lines, the article argues that Kılıçkaya’s writing provides another model for national and European belonging, one that depends, perhaps paradoxically, on sub-national and local belonging – in both the country of origin and the country of settlement.

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Five ways of deconstructing Europe

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Integration of Islam in Europe: Categorical Remarks

Integration of Islam in Europe: Categorical Remarks

Islam Between Inclusion and Exclusion: A (Decolonial) Frame Problem

Literature of immigration as a literature of Europe

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