Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe - Couverture souple

Darian-Smith, Eve

 
9780520216112: Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe
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ISBN 10 : 0520216113 ISBN 13 : 9780520216112
Editeur : University of California Press, 1999

Synopsis

In a study that is original and timely, Eve Darian-Smith uses the Channel Tunnel between England and France to explore the shifting geographies of nationalism, postcolonialism, and legal autonomy in the formation of the European Union. Conducting ethnographic research in Kent, the county at the English mouth of the Tunnel, she looks at regional differences in feelings about Europe and at the vocabulary used in discussing the Tunnel. Visual representations - political cartoons, photographs, etchings - regarding the Tunnel are also examined. Two hundred years after Napoleon planned to invade England via a tunnel, the completion in 1994 of a fast rail link between Great Britain and the European mainland symbolizes the disintegration of conventional state borders. While the Tunnel precariously affirms the ideal of a united Europe, it also brings to the fore questions of boundaries between the first and third worlds, colonizers and colonized, and the 'East' and the 'West.' "Bridging Divides" is about much more than an engineering feat. By exploring historical narratives, tunnel stories, and legal myths, Darian-Smith's study shows the interconnections between people's memories of the past and current history.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eve Darian-Smith is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and coeditor, with Peter Fitzpatrick, of Laws of the Postcolonial (1998). She trained in anthropology at Harvard and the University of Chicago, and has also practiced law in Melbourne, Australia.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520216113
ISBN 13 
9780520216112
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
273
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780520216105: Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe

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ISBN 10 :  0520216105 ISBN 13 :  9780520216105
Editeur : University of California Press, 1999
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