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A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration CrisisEuropeanism: The Repressed Anxiety of a Transnational Intellectual Class

A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration Crisis: Europeanism: The Repressed... [This chapter begins with the details of the deal between European Powers and Greece over debt restructuring, analyses the neoliberal programme of reshaping the Greek state through the deal, and then proceeds to unravel the phenomenon of Europe as the eternal illusion—the Europa to be rescued eternally from her abductors. In this context, the chapter engages in a discussion on the ideology of Europeanism which had put Greece in the first place in the service of euro, the common currency of a large chunk of the continent and the main instrument of a monetarist union, through which Europe had transformed itself into a neoliberal land. The chapter argues that at the heart of the illusion lay a self-created and self-held belief that the nation question in Europe was over, that Europe had a special history of being a continental self, and the destiny of Greece lay with this special history of Europe, and that a radical transformation of Greece would come only through a continent wide transformation. In this context, the chapter examines the illusions of the European Left and the New Left, the illusion of Europe, and the false hope on the capacity of social mobilisation to work as a substitute of political mobilisation towards revolutionary transformation of consciousness.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration CrisisEuropeanism: The Repressed Anxiety of a Transnational Intellectual Class

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Springer Singapore
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© Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
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978-981-10-2211-1
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53 –86
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10.1007/978-981-10-2212-8_3
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[This chapter begins with the details of the deal between European Powers and Greece over debt restructuring, analyses the neoliberal programme of reshaping the Greek state through the deal, and then proceeds to unravel the phenomenon of Europe as the eternal illusion—the Europa to be rescued eternally from her abductors. In this context, the chapter engages in a discussion on the ideology of Europeanism which had put Greece in the first place in the service of euro, the common currency of a large chunk of the continent and the main instrument of a monetarist union, through which Europe had transformed itself into a neoliberal land. The chapter argues that at the heart of the illusion lay a self-created and self-held belief that the nation question in Europe was over, that Europe had a special history of being a continental self, and the destiny of Greece lay with this special history of Europe, and that a radical transformation of Greece would come only through a continent wide transformation. In this context, the chapter examines the illusions of the European Left and the New Left, the illusion of Europe, and the false hope on the capacity of social mobilisation to work as a substitute of political mobilisation towards revolutionary transformation of consciousness.]

Published: Oct 11, 2016

Keywords: Europa; Europeanism; Keynesianism; Welfare state; European Left; New Left; Anti-austerity; Monetarist union; IMF; Islamophobia; Hellenophilia; National question; Lenin on Europe

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