What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossing planes, lovingly craft our legacy wines, fish our depleted waters, and risk life itself in search of safety and a new start?
In a series of vivid, ambitious, darkly visceral but always empathetic portraits of other people’s lives, journalist Ben Judah invites us to meet them. Drawn from hours of painstaking interviews, these vital stories reveal a frenetic and vibrant continent which has been transformed by diversity, migration, the internet, climate change, Covid, war and the quest for freedom.
Laid dramatically bare, it may not always be a Europe we recognize – but this is Europe.
Author(s): Ben Judah
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: French
Commentary: Eurpean identity, politics, sociology
Pages: 640
Tags: Eurpean identity, politics, sociology
CONTENTS
1 ROTTERDAM
2 BALOGA
3 İSTANBUL
4 AVDIIVK
5 BUDAPEST
6 SABETTA
7 Liepāja
8 LINHARES DA BEIRA
9 MADRID
10 LE COL DE L’ÉCHELLE
11 BRIANÇON
12 MEURSAULT
13 STORKOW
14 TBILISI
15 BERLIN
16 HATVAN
17 HOMYEL
18 AVIGNON
19 RUCKLA
20 EVIA
21 NORRKÖPING
22 CORRUBEDO
23 CASTLETOWNROCHE
AUTHOR’S NOTE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS