This thesis aims at responding to the question, to what extent popular sport can make a contribution to the genesis, the implementation, and the fostering of a mutually acknowledged and experienced EU-identity. With sport being the major social movement in Europe - unique in its efficiency in bringing people together, being a drive for integration, bridging any kind of borders and its nonpareil ubiquity - its implementation on a European level targeting the European Union people through popular sports will sustainably and remarkably promote the idea of an EU-identity. As an example for a small but utterly profound project, the idea of a European Sports Badge (EUSB) is presented as a transnationally implementable proposal, involving and addressing EU-citizens of all nations, sexes and ages. It should be noted, though, that sports are certainly not a panacea.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE: AN EU MASTERPIECE AT THE OLYMPICS
1. Mapping the road
a. What happened so far
b. Analyzing present and potential future challenges for the EU
c. Together we stand, divided we fall: Expounding the necessity of a mutually acknowledged EU-identity
d. The EU White Paper on Sport
2. The European Union and its prospective identity
a. One multifaceted EU-identity
i. The nature of an EU-identity
1. Territory: Border lines and exclusion
2. Language : The confusion of tongues
3. Legal framework and politics
4. History: Experience and roots
5. Community: Legitimacy and control
6. Values: The dynamic key benchmark
7. Common symbols
ii. Transnational Identity
b. The seven pieces of a blueprint for an EU-identity
c. Advantageous pluralism and demanding necessities
3. The European Union Sports Badge: One simple, smart and sustainable project
a. Popular sports - literally favorable
i. Professional sports in any spotlight
ii. A dwarfed section
b. The project: EUSB: Compilation and objectives
c. Testing the EU-identity blueprint
i. Territory
ii. Language
iii. Legal framework
iv. History
v. Community
vi. Values
vii. Common symbols
d. Side effects
e. Institutionalizing Europeanization
CONCLUSION: THE BARE NECESSITIES OF LIFE WILL COME TO YOU
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Citar trabajo
- Stephanie Theresa Trapp (Autor), 2012, Forging an EU-Identity through popular sports, Múnich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/284608
-
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X. -
¡Carge sus propios textos! Gane dinero y un iPhone X.