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In 1969 a small group of US scholars began discussing the possibility of starting a consortium of Western European Studies programmes. Europe was increasingly becoming an object of study and it was felt that greater coordination of the intellectual effort would help avoid duplication and further the acceleration of research. So began the Council for European Studies.

In commemoration of the founding of the Council fifty years ago, this volume brings together some of the most influential Europeanists writing today to take stock of the subject and to consider the most fruitful avenues for future research. With European democracy seemingly under threat from populism on the left and the right, the economies of countries still struggling to emerge from a decade of recession and stagnating growth, environmental concerns paramount and the quest for social cohesion a distant goal, the contributors to this volume bring their insight to bear on the fertile ground that the EU and the continent more broadly offer researchers.

The contributors - drawn from 52 institutions across the globe - present a wide range of perspectives on Europe's past and present, and the key challenges facing its future, such as immigration, multiculturalism, nationalism and integration. Although it remains to be seen whether Europeans will continue to promote the dream of union or whether they will retreat back into their nation states, these essays offer valuable insights into how Europe might respond and the changing nature of what it means to be a European.

European communities --- Research. --- Council for European Studies. --- Europe --- Study and teaching.

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periodical studies --- European studies --- print culture --- editor studies --- periodicals --- Periodicals --- Research --- Journals (Periodicals) --- Magazines --- Library materials --- Mass media --- Serial publications --- Newspapers --- Press --- Research. --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Library & Information Science --- european studies

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Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations, whilst remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, presenting a mixture of real and imaginary spaces, of memory and nostalgia, of aesthetic and political symbolism, of the global East and the global South, of academic and essayistic writing. It casts a glance at the heterogeneous relics of socialism and their transformation in very different parts of the world. From the description of (post-)socialist interiors, façades, neighborhoods, parks, monuments, and objects towards the imaginary spaces of literature, the contributors describe the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left of the »second world« today.

(Post-)Socialism; Urban Studies; Literature; East European Studies; Hybrid Spatialities; Memory Culture; Space; Society; Cultural Studies --- Cultural Studies. --- East European Studies. --- Hybrid Spatialities. --- Literature. --- Memory Culture. --- Society. --- Space. --- Urban Studies. --- 2000-2099 --- Former communist countries.

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Bulgaria’s cultural policy has experienced many transformations since the revolution. One of the most important is that at the beginning the conviction developed that those elements which could not support themselves because of the new market situation made no relevant social contribution. One of the aims of this thesis is to question what the reality of “cultural economy” is and how this is reflected in law-making and life.

Politics & government --- cultural politics --- East European Studies --- contemporary history Bulgaria --- cultural economy --- Kulturpolitik --- Osteuropastudien --- Zeitgeschichte Bulgariens --- Kulturwirtschaft Bulgarien --- Sofia