Consumer rights/cultural rights

A new politics of European belonging

Bibliographic Data

ID12599561
AuthorsA M Cronin (0000-0002-3127-996X, Lancaster University, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume5
Issue3
Pages307-323
Publication date2002-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1364942002005003067
OpenAlexW1976406821
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited22

In an initiative by the World Commission on Culture and Development, the Council of Europe has produced a series of policy documents that aim to define Europe through a common `European culture'. This article explores the ideas of Europe, culture and consumerism that are used in the report to redefine the terms of European belonging and rights. I explore the gendered and racial interconnections in these definitions and the rhetorical use of cultural heritage in generating an idea(l) of Europe. I argue that new connections between consumer rights, European rights and cultural rights in the Council of Europe's discourses produce shifts in liberal concepts of self-expressive representational politics. These changes have important implications for those who have an ambiguous and/or marginalized relation to the terms of citizenship and cultural belonging

Citizenship · Consumerism · Cultural heritage · Cultural policy · Cultural rights · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Linguistic rights · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Rhetorical question · Right to property · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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