Shifting Boundaries: the Rise and Fall of European Nation-States in Comparative Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Nolte
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
European Nation ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Shifting Boundaries

scholarly journals State of Exception: The Birthplace of Kafka’s Narrative Authority

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Biti
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
The Political ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Narrative Authority ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
European Nation ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Collateral Effects

Across the postimperial East Central Europe, whose geopolitical space was reconfigured on the model of West European nation-states, unprocessed human residues proliferated as the collateral effects of politically guided national homogenizations. These positional outsiders, who were prevented from becoming legible within the newly established political spaces, take center stage in Kafka’s narratives, not only in the form of their characters but also their narrators and ultimate authority. They passionately attach themselves to the zones of indistinction, which the modern societies’ “egalitarian discrimination” has doomed them to, thus trying to turn their enforced dispossession into a chosen self-dispossession. I argue that Kafka’s narratives owe their elusive ultimate authority precisely to this persistent translation of the political state of exception of his agencies into their literary state of exemption. They are at constant pains to transfigure the imposed state of exception through its peculiar fictional adoption, but Kafka’s ultimate narrative authority nevertheless takes care to keep an edge over their efforts. It is precisely this never-ending gradation of subversive mimicry in Kafka’s works that his postcolonial successor J. M. Coetzee most admired.

9. Union Citizenship

2019 ◽  
pp. 318-381
Author(s):  
Catherine Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Political Activities ◽  
European Nation ◽  
Nation States ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
Union Citizenship ◽  
Territorial Boundaries

This chapter examines the concept of Union citizenship and the rights EU citizens enjoy. European citizenship allows individuals a variety of associative relations based on economic, social, cultural, scholarly, and even political activities, irrespective of the traditional territorial boundaries of the European nation states, without binding individuals to a particular nationality. In particular, this chapter examines the rights enjoyed by citizens under the Citizens’ Rights Directive 2004/38, including family rights and what rights citizens enjoy independent of being economically active.

Multiple Citizenship as a Challenge to European Nation-States

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman ◽  
Pirkko Pitkänen
Keyword(s):  
European Nation ◽  
Nation States

Turning Point for the European Social Model?

2010 ◽  
Vol 109 (725) ◽  
pp. 99-104
Author(s):  
Stein Kuhnle
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Model ◽  
European Social Model ◽  
European Nation ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Public Responsibility ◽  
The Welfare State

The form of the welfare state may change, but … European nation-states will continue to view public responsibility for citizen welfare as an important role.

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