AMSTERDAM GROUP B 'European Citizen'

Tampere’s lecture today touched on a few very interesting points. It seemed to direct problematization toward a few terms. It did not expand on why or what ‘provoked’ concern. For instance the idea of a “European citizen” as mentioned seems to be a quite vague concept. Why in the first place is this ‘label’ or ‘identity’ something desirable enough to receive funding? What are the economic and/or cultural benefits of homogenizing ‘European performance’?

The fact that a performance research program named Prospero (prospero-caliban à post-colonial notion) gets funding by attaching a “European citizen” label to it is actually shedding a light on the fact that “Euro-citizenship” can be seen “AS” performance. Grouping the countries together in a psudo-allience in order to create a more prosperous (powerful?) political institution appropriates the continental allegiance and ignores national and regional differences. The problemitization of the concept of a ‘European Citizen’ occurs as it establishes and suggests an essentialist view of what it means to belong to a transnational organization.

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