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Being and Belonging: A discursive reading of identity politics in the European Union´s engagement with Ukraine

Westman, Henrik LU (2014) SIMV07 20141
Department of Political Science
Master of Science in Global Studies
Graduate School
Abstract
Much scholarly work has been devoted to the issue of the identity politics of the EU, often however by attempting to construe limited empirical findings as proof of how the EU generally aims to represent itself and others. This thesis takes a different, more contextual, approach by investigating, via a Laclau and Mouffe inspired discourse analysis, how the EU via representations in its foreign policy discourse towards Ukraine constitutes both the EU self and the Ukraine other. It closely studies the EU discourse towards Ukraine, including two of the great ruptures of the last two decades, the end of the cold war and the Eastern Enlargement of the EU, where the latter was forced to re-negotiate itself and its borders. The thesis... (More)
Much scholarly work has been devoted to the issue of the identity politics of the EU, often however by attempting to construe limited empirical findings as proof of how the EU generally aims to represent itself and others. This thesis takes a different, more contextual, approach by investigating, via a Laclau and Mouffe inspired discourse analysis, how the EU via representations in its foreign policy discourse towards Ukraine constitutes both the EU self and the Ukraine other. It closely studies the EU discourse towards Ukraine, including two of the great ruptures of the last two decades, the end of the cold war and the Eastern Enlargement of the EU, where the latter was forced to re-negotiate itself and its borders. The thesis additionally highlights and analyses the repeated conflations between the EU and Europe in EU discourse. (Less)
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author
Westman, Henrik LU
supervisor
organization
course
SIMV07 20141
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
self/other, Post-structuralism, Identity, Ukraine, European Union
language
English
id
4628592
date added to LUP
2014-09-08 08:54:45
date last changed
2014-09-08 08:54:45
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  abstract     = {{Much scholarly work has been devoted to the issue of the identity politics of the EU, often however by attempting to construe limited empirical findings as proof of how the EU generally aims to represent itself and others. This thesis takes a different, more contextual, approach by investigating, via a Laclau and Mouffe inspired discourse analysis, how the EU via representations in its foreign policy discourse towards Ukraine constitutes both the EU self and the Ukraine other. It closely studies the EU discourse towards Ukraine, including two of the great ruptures of the last two decades, the end of the cold war and the Eastern Enlargement of the EU, where the latter was forced to re-negotiate itself and its borders. The thesis additionally highlights and analyses the repeated conflations between the EU and Europe in EU discourse.}},
  author       = {{Westman, Henrik}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Being and Belonging: A discursive reading of identity politics in the European Union´s engagement with Ukraine}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}