Memory Identity and Intercultural communication

This collection of articles, entitled Memory, Identity and Intercultural Communication, aims to highlight, through the approaches it contains (seemingly disparate, but in fact, converging in many ways), the relationship between memory, the landscape of identity and interculturality. The idea of identity is, moreover, one that is haunting in the interrogations of contemporary Epistemics, especially in the context of meditation on the relationship between national and European identity. With the necessary specification that a European identity draws its conceptual rigor and strength not from a simple sum of national identities, but rather by considering Europeanness as a project in development, a project that is configured through intercultural communication, which makes the European identity dynamics viable and legitimate, expressing itself as a bridge between cultures, places and languages. The space of Europeanness is built, thus, besides this anthropologically resonant way of intercultural communication, through several "agents of the European consciousness", ie those "actors, actions, artifacts, buildings, institutions, policies and representations that, alone or collectively, help generate collective consciousness and promoting the acceptance of the 'European idea' "(Cris Shore). The route, not easy at all, of this transition from "national imagination", with its mental limitations, symbolic or ideological, to a collective imaginary, a European identity is staged through memory and intercultural communication, the means bt wgucg the identification and collective legitimation operates with a criterion of "unity in diversity", implying, on the one hand, the preservation of the national features, and, on the other hand, the knowledge, the understanding and axiological exploitation of other cultures. [An excerpt from the introduction of the book]