The normative threat of subtle subversion: The return of ‘Eastern Europe’ as an ontological insecurity trope
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The normative threat of subtle subversion : The return of ‘Eastern Europe’ as an ontological insecurity trope. / Mälksoo, Maria.
I: Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Bind 32, Nr. 3, 15.05.2019, s. 365-383.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The normative threat of subtle subversion
T2 - The return of ‘Eastern Europe’ as an ontological insecurity trope
AU - Mälksoo, Maria
PY - 2019/5/15
Y1 - 2019/5/15
N2 - A combination of undemocratic developments in Hungary and Poland as well as Eastern Europe’s reluctance to engage in solidary burden-sharing at the height of the refugee crisis in Europe has brought back familiar allusions of Eastern Europeans as troublemakers for European unity and peace. This article offers a discursive dissection of ‘Eastern Europe’ as a subtly subversive challenge to Europe’s security of ‘self’, entailing a fear of being overrun by an ‘other’ perceived as endangering one’s normative and cultural order. Proceeding from Ingrid Creppell’s (2011) notion of normative threat, this article argues that the reappearance of ‘Eastern Europe’ as an ontological insecurity trope is indicative of deeper anxieties within Europe, some of which are systemic (such as doubts about the efficacy of integration and the legitimacy of the European Union) and some of which are contingent (such as concerns about defending the European political order from populist upsurges amidst ‘resurgent nationalism’).
AB - A combination of undemocratic developments in Hungary and Poland as well as Eastern Europe’s reluctance to engage in solidary burden-sharing at the height of the refugee crisis in Europe has brought back familiar allusions of Eastern Europeans as troublemakers for European unity and peace. This article offers a discursive dissection of ‘Eastern Europe’ as a subtly subversive challenge to Europe’s security of ‘self’, entailing a fear of being overrun by an ‘other’ perceived as endangering one’s normative and cultural order. Proceeding from Ingrid Creppell’s (2011) notion of normative threat, this article argues that the reappearance of ‘Eastern Europe’ as an ontological insecurity trope is indicative of deeper anxieties within Europe, some of which are systemic (such as doubts about the efficacy of integration and the legitimacy of the European Union) and some of which are contingent (such as concerns about defending the European political order from populist upsurges amidst ‘resurgent nationalism’).
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - normative threat
KW - subversion
KW - Eastern Europe
KW - ontological insecurity
KW - liminality
KW - populism
U2 - 10.1080/09557571.2019.1590314
DO - 10.1080/09557571.2019.1590314
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 365
EP - 383
JO - Cambridge Review of International Affairs
JF - Cambridge Review of International Affairs
SN - 0955-7571
IS - 3
ER -
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