i am a native foreigner
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I am a native foreignerDealing with the change: communities, memories, narratives
ICOM Europe Annual Conference, Bologna, 14.11.2017
Night of the Greek referendum, 2015
The Catalan independentist leaders heading to Court, 2017
“A European collective identity is achievable
despite the lack of a ‘European people’. Collective
identity should be understood as arising through
conversations and narratives about identification
and belonging to a political community, undertaken
in a European public sphere. (…) In a European
public sphere, identities may be reshaped, and the
degree of attachment may be strengthened or
weakened through democratic processes.”
European Commission “The Development of European Indentity/Identities:
Unfinished Business” (2012)
“The European Union's fundamental values are
respect for human dignity and human rights,
freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of
law. These values unite all the member states – no
country that does not recognise these values can
belong to the Union.”European Parliament website
Member States are close in terms of
values:
• young 56% among 15-24 year-olds
• more educated57% studied beyond the age of 20
• top social scales62% upper middle and 57% upper
Struggling for free food, Athens, Greece
News of the terminal decline of NHS (or the benefits system), UK
Waiting to board a bus, Lesvos,
Greece
At the Hungarian border
Demonstrations in France because of the removal of a Roma girl from a school
bus by immigration officials, threatening to deport her.
The Catalan referendum
Czech legislative
elections campaign
Brexit campaign
“A woman’s adultery is a very serious attack on the
honor and dignity of a man. Societies exist where an
adulterous woman is stoned to death. In the Bible, we
can read that the adulterous woman should be punished
by death.”
“White Europe of brotherly nations”
“Pray for Islamic Holocaust”Nationalist march in Warsaw on Polish Independence Day, 11.11.2017
Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg, President of the European Commission
Marion Bloem, Holland, Writer, of indo descent (mixed Dutch and Indonesian)
Giannis Adetokunbo, Greece, Basketball player, son of Nigerian immigrants
Children of the Muslim minority in Northern Greece
Maria Vlachou, Greece/Portugal, Cultural Manager
Francisca Van Dunem, Portugal, Minister of Justice
Audrey Azoulay, France, ex-Minister of Culture, of Morrocan descent, Jewish
Anonymous, Britain, Muslim
Anonymous, Britain, trans woman
Conchita, Austria, Performer, a man in a dress
Anonymous, Spain, where a dictionary defines “Gypsy” as “swindler”
Elmedini, Roma, stateless
Shirin Ebadi Kurt Westergaard
National Museum of Archaeology, Lisbon
Grada Kilomba, Table of Goods, MAAT, Lisbon
Cypriot terrorists / resistance figherts
Ahlam Shibli, Phantom House
Jeu de Paume, Paris
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Cornelius van Harlaam,
“Bathsheba at her toilet”
(1594)
“(…) Because Bathsheba’s
maidservant is black, the
subtly erotic painting takes on
an exotic tinge.”
“Things have changed so much
that I often feel like a stranger in
my own country.”
