Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity

GILL ALLWOOD Senior Lecturer in French, Nottingham Trent University SUSAN BASSNETT Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick and Professor in the Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies ANNA BULL Professor in Italian Studies, University of Bath DAVID COULBY Dean of Faculty of Education and Human Sciences and Professor of Education Sciences, Bath Spa University College PETER HUMPHREYS Reader in Government at Manchester University and Fellow of the European Institute for the Media ROSALIND MARSH Professor of Russian Studies, Bath University PAMELA MOORES Senior Lecturer in French and Director of Undergraduate Programmes in the School of Languages and European Studies, Aston University MURRAY PRATT Teaches in the Department of French Studies at Warwick University KEITH READER Professor of French, University of Newcastle GRAHAM ROBERTS Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of Surrey ALISON SMITH Lecturer in French, Keele University CHRIS WARNE Lecturer in French Studies, Keele University STEPHEN WEBBER Lecturer in International Security at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham

This volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education , addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Will Europe become more open to diversity, or become increasingly introspective, a 'fortress Europe'?This volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education , addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are: what does it mean to be a European? What ideologies have shaped the political debate over the last two centuries? What place will minorities find in the Europe of the twenty-first century? What roles will women play in the future communities? Will Europe become more open to diversity, or become increasingly introspective, a 'fortress Europe'?