Trenz introduces a sociological perspective on European integration by
looking at different accounts of Europeanization as society building.
He observes how Europeanization unfolds in ongoing practices and
discourses through which social relations among the Europeans are
redefined and re-embedded. The chapters describe how the project of
European integration has been powerfully launched in postwar Europe as
a normative venture that comprises polity and society building, how
this project became ingrained in every-day life histories and
experiences of the Europeans, how this project became contested and
confronted resistances and, ultimately, how it went through its most
severe crisis. A sociology of European integration is thus outlined
along four main themes or narratives: first, the elite processes of
identity construction and the framework of norms and ideas that
carries such a construction (together with notions of European
identity, EU citizenship, etc.); second, the socialization of European
citizens, processes of banal Europeanism, and social transnationalism
through everyday cross-border exchanges; third, the mobilization of
resistance and Euroskepticism as a fundamental and collectively
mobilized opposition to processes of Europeanization; and fourth, the
political sociology of crisis, linked not only to financial turmoil
but also, more fundamentally, to a legitimation crisis that affects
Europe and the democratic nation-state.
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ISBN
9781498527064
Publisert
2016
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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