ANR-DFG Imageun – In the Mirror of the European Neighbourhood (Policy). Mapping Macro-Regional Imaginations (2020-2024)
The aim of this Franco-German research project is to analyse the specifically geographical dimension of the imaginaries that drive regional integration in this part of the world. By combining the analysis of textual and iconographic corpora, the aim is to identify and study the regions of the world to which the populations of five countries feel they belong: Germany, France, Turkey, Tunisia and the United Kingdom. By distancing ourselves from a Eurocentric posture, which would consider above all these regional imaginaries through the prism of "Europe" alone, or even the EU, the aim of this work is to analyse these imaginaries, as they appear in these countries in their diversity, without any a priori limits or scales and through the cross-analysis of three different types of discourse: that obtained through surveys of political decision-makers, undergraduate students and through the analysis of media corpuses.
