The European Assemblage: A Discursive-Material Analysis of European Identity, Europaneity and Europeanisation

Different academic disciplines have deployed a diversity of approaches to European identity, Europeanism and Europeanisation, with often strong emphasis on their material-structural components. This article uses discursive-material analysis, that acknowledges the importance material, but places it in non-hierarchical relation discursive. Grounded an extensive literature review first highlights discursive nature these concepts, how they engage struggles other place-based identities discourses, articulations concepts themselves are deeply contingent, long history essentialist articulations. In second part, material components three (and particular Europeanisation) analysed, then allowing for plea understand Europe as assemblage, where is seen be performed always unique contingent material.