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Established in 2002, the Euro is now the currency of 17 countries used by over 335 million people daily. Although the single currency is much discussed in terms of macroeconomics and global finances, policymakers rarely address its impact on European citizenship in social, cultural, political, and everyday life economics terms. This hidden side of the single currency is the focus of the essays, which use various approaches, from economic history and political sociology to citizenship and legitimacy, to reveal the connections between the Euro and European citizenship.This timely contribution by renowned experts provides a greater understanding of the Euro at a time when it is not clear whether it should be celebrated or commemorated, and looks into aspects of the single currency that are the base of the social trust that supports it and that is at stake in the present crisis. It will be an essential tool to anyone studying the political, social, and economic development of the E.U.>
List of contents
Introduction
Giovanni Moro
Part I. The Multiple Links between the Single Currency and European Citizenship
1. Building Citizenship in the Post-Modern Era
Giovanni Moro, Lucia Mazzuca and Roberto Ranucci
2. Imaginary Europe: the Euro as Symbol and Practice
Kathleen McNamara
3. The Only Wealth are Human Beings: Currency Between Economy and Citizenship
Thierry Vissol
4. Trust in Euro: The Single Currency as Social Construction of an Institutional Fact
Matthias Kaelberer
5. The Unintended "Litmus Test": The Euro as factor of Center-Formation, Trust Enhancement, Identity Building
Daniela Piana
6. The Euro in Scientific and Policy Literature
Lucia Mazzuca, Roberto Ranucci
Part II. The Single Currency and the Construction of European Identity
7. Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Euro and Europeanization of Collective Identities
Thomas Risse
8. Why Money Can't Buy Democracy: On the Detachment of the Euro from Citizenship
Eva Heidbreder
9. Representations of Identity: Euro and Dollar as Identity Builder
Arianna Montanari
Part III. European Citizenship in the Euro Turmoil
10. In the Light and Shadow of the Single Currency: European Identity and Citizenship, Political and Social
Vivien Schmidt
11. One Currency, Two Faces, Many Problems: The Euro, European Citizenship and Cultural Politics of EMU
Cris Shore
12. Between Natural and Moral Order of Things: The Euro and the Problem of Agency
Victor Pérez-Diàz
13. Between Illusion and Disillusion: Public Opinion Facing the Euro Crisis
Nando Pagnoncelli
14. Back to the Future? The Euro and the Silent Constitution Building
Dario Castiglione
Conclusion: The Way Forward
Giovanni Moro
About the author
Giovanni Moro teaches Political Sociology at Roma Tre University, Italy. He is President of FONDACA, a European think-tank based in Rome. He is the author of The Currency of Discord (Cooper, 2011) and Citizens in Europe: Civic Activism and the Community Democratic Experiment (Springer, 2012).
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Giovanni Moro's innovative volume examines the crucial but neglected relationship between currency space and political identities in Europe. Its contributors explore very effectively how the project to create "one money" in Europe was linked to the emergence of not just "one market" but also "one people". The eurozone crisis has only reinforced the importance of their message that the study of money must never be left just to economists. Eric Helleiner, Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy , Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, UK
