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Old Europe, New Europe: For a Geopolitics of Translation

Bialasiewicz, L.; Minca, C.

Authors

L. Bialasiewicz

C. Minca



Abstract

This paper looks to the role of geographical metaphors in the 'battle of words' to describe Europe and its presumed identity. The facile adoption of banal cartographies such as those of a 'New' and 'Old' Europe highlights two concerns: first, that despite the imperial and isolationistic temptations of the current American administration, its geopolitical imagination remains firmly wedded to – indeed, cannot but define itself by – its relationship with the 'Old Continent'. Secondly, it reveals an astonishing distance between such cartographic abstractions and the variety of non-territorial metaphors – in particular, those of mediation and translation – that are increasingly being invoked to inscribe possible futures for the European project.

Citation

Bialasiewicz, L., & Minca, C. (2005). Old Europe, New Europe: For a Geopolitics of Translation. Area, 37(4), 365-372. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2005.00646.x

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2005-12
Deposit Date Nov 9, 2006
Journal Area
Print ISSN 0004-0894
Electronic ISSN 1475-4762
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 37
Issue 4
Pages 365-372
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2005.00646.x
Keywords Geographical metaphors, Identity, Geopolitical imagination, Geopolitics, Transatlantic relations, Neo-conservatives, Etienne Balibar.