Europeanness – A Nostalgic Object of Scrutiny at the Time of Pandemic

• Authors: Janina Falkowska

Abstracts

EN

The idea of Europeanness and European identity rather than the national identity gains in relevance in view of the symbolic reorganization of the geographic spaces. Moreover, the national identity issues have somewhat lost importance in view of the global hazard of the COVID pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to debate the concept of Europeanness and to express an ambivalent position on this notion. Taking into consideration the most recent accomplishments of cultural theory I would like to demonstrate that the so-called European identity is a nostalgic object recalled to reminisce about the time when globalization and global threats did not exist at the scale comparable to the present. Or, the knowledge about them was patchy due to the undeveloped internet communication. Taking into consideration the explanations of Arjun Appadurai and Svetlana Boym, I will deconstruct the notion of Europeanness in view of a broad idea of nostalgia which according to Boym interprets the past as illusory and non-existent.

Keywords

EN

Europe; Europeanness; history; culture; nostalgia; nostalgic object; Impressionism; French New Wave

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej
• Journal: Polonia Journal
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 14
• Pages: 13-31

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Janina Falkowska

• Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej

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Identifiers

DOI

10.36228/PJ.14/2021.2

Biblioteka Nauki

3200749