EVOLUTION OF DISCOURSES ON EUROPE. THE RISE OF NATIONAL-POPULISM AND THE IDENTITY MALAISE
EVOLUTION OF DISCOURSES ON EUROPE. THE RISE OF NATIONAL-POPULISM AND THE IDENTITY MALAISE

Summary/Abstract: For the past twenty years, the “rise of populism”, to use a common designation in the media, has been a phenomenon marking national and European elections. Why has Europe become a divisive issue, often even controversial? A widely used interpretation in political commentaries presents the phenomenon as the consequence of the economic crisis. This paper focuses on the conflict between the identity promoted by the institutions and the identity issue in the populist rhetoric. Doing this, the second part of the article returns to the quarrel over identities between heritage and construction. Finally the paper discusses the effects of the different conceptions of identity on the understanding of migration processes.

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