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How is Europe perceived by its citizens? What does Europe mean for European Union (EU) citizens? In what ways does ‘Europe’ materialize in our everyday life? How does it manifest itself and what do we feel about what ‘Europe’ represents? In what ways do European citizens experience their individual, or their collective belonging to the EU in the quotidien, in the simple every day?

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© 2013 Anna Triandafyllidou, Hara Kouki, and Ruby Gropas

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Triandafyllidou, A., Kouki, H., Gropas, R. (2013). Toward an Anthropology of the European Union: Insights from Greece. In: Salvatore, A., Schmidtke, O., Trenz, HJ. (eds) Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283207_9

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