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Poslední úprava: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (31.01.2022)
We will be interested, in particular, in how actors speak and debate about Europe: how they ‘make’ Europe in ‘talking’ (about) it and what they signify in acting out particular ‘European’ practices and routines. What claims get made about Europe? What principles get invoked to justify positions on Europe? How is definitional power attributed to certain participants and denied to others? What formal and informal procedures govern political discourse in the various arenas in which European integration is performed and what are their politicising or depoliticising implications? How are statistical measures of public opinion made to ‘speak’ in ways that integrate a European space-economy? What effect do actors’ positions in the ‘linguistic market’ of a multilingual entity have on their inclusion or exclusion from governance processes often heralded as ‘open’ or ‘participatory’? The structure of the course is as follows. After considering what it means to study Europe sociologically, we will assemble an investigative repertoire from a range of sociological currents (some familiar, other perhaps less so), and then use them to reproblematise recurring normative and empirical debates about European integration, institutional design and the ‘character of the polity’ that the European Union is or should be. The final section of the course consists of three case studies where we can explore the enactment of top-down and bottom-up visions of Europe in specific practices and procedures. |
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Poslední úprava: Jana Vojanová (04.02.2019)
Familiarise yourselves with the sociological literature on European integration. Acquire an aptitude in applying several different sociological approaches to the investigation of European integration. Learn to study the communicative/discursive dimensions of social practice as constitutive features of organisation, institutionalisation and Europeanisation. Explore specific sociological case studies relating to the functioning of European institutions, their democratic legitimacy, and civil society involvement in politics. |
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Poslední úprava: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (31.01.2022)
(numbers in brackets indicate relevance to course programme) (1, 3b) Adler-Nissen, R. (2016) Towards a Practice Turn in EU Studies: The Everyday of European Integration, Journal of Common Market Studies 54(1): 87-103. (9) Aldrin, P. (2011) The Eurobarometer and the making of European opinion. In: Gaxie, D., Hube, N. & Rowell, J. (eds.) Perceptions of Europe. A comparative sociology of european attitudes. Colchester: ECPR Press: 17–34. (3d, 11) Badouard, R. & Monnoyer-Smith, L. (2013) Hyperlinks as Political Resources: The European Commission Confronted with Online Activism, Policy & Internet 5(1): 101-117. (6) Baisnée, O. (2014) Reporting the European Union: A study in journalistic boredom. In Kuhn, R. & Nielsen, R. (eds.) Political Journalism in Transition. London: I.B. Tauris: 131-150. (2) Ban, C. (2013) Management and Culture in an Enlarged European Commission: From Diversity to Unity? Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. (10) Barbulescu, R. & Favell, A. (2019) Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights. International Migration 58(1): 151-165. (10) Benson, M. (2020) Brexit and the Classed Politics of Bordering: The British in France and European Belongings. Sociology 54(3): 501-517. (3e, 11) Blokker, P. (2012) A Political Sociology of European Anti-Politics and Dissent, Cambio. Rivista sulla Trasformazioni Sociali 2(4): 17-31. (5) Börzel, Tanja A. (2018) Governance Approaches to European Integration. KFG Working Paper Series, No. 84, May 2018, Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) “The Transformative Power of Europe”, Freie Universität Berlin: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/57628/ssoar-2018-Governance_Approaches_to_European_Integration.pdf?sequence=1 (10) Brahic, B. & Lallement, M. (2020) From 'Expats' to 'Migrants': strategies of resilience among French movers in post-Brexit Manchester. Migration and Development 9(1): 8-24. (6, 11) Cammaerts, B. & Van Audenhove, L. (2005) Online political debate, unbounded citizenship and the problematic nature of a transnational public sphere, Political Communication 22(2): 179-196. (3c, 11) Della Porta, D. & Caiani, M. (2007) Europeanization from below. Social movements and Europe, Mobilization: An International Quarterly 12(1): 1-20. (3d, 11) Doerr, N. (2012) Translating democracy: how activists in the European Social Forum practice multilingual deliberation, European Political Science Review 4(3): 361-384. (6) Eriksen, E. (2008) Conceptualising European public spheres: general, segmented and strong publics. In: Fossum, J. & Schlesinger, P. (eds.) The European Union and the public sphere: a communicative space in the making? London: Routledge: 23-43. (6) Eriksen, E. & Fossum, J. (2002) Democracy through strong publics in the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies 40(3): 401-424. (5) European Commission (2001) European Governance - A White Paper: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_DOC-01-10_en.pdf (6) Eurospheres working paper series (see especially numbers 3 and 9): https://ideas.repec.org/s/erp/ewpxxx.html (2) Favell, A. (2008) Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (1) Favell, A. & Guiraudon, V. (2009) The Sociology of the European Union: An Agenda, European Union Politics 10(4): 550-577. (1, 2) Fligstein, N. (2008) Euroclash. The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10) Gawlewicz, A. & Sotkasiira, T. (2019) Revisiting geographies of temporalities: The significance of time in migrant responses to Brexit. Population, Space and Place 26(1): e2275. (10) Genova, E. & Zontini, E. (2020) Liminal Lives: Navigating In-Betweenness in the Case of Bulgarian and Italian Migrants in Brexiting Britain. Central and Eastern European Migration Review 9(1): 47-64. (2, 3a) Georgakakis, D., & Weisbein, J. (2010) From above and from below: A political sociology of European actors, Comparative European Politics 8(1): 93-109. (1) Guiraudon, V. (2006) Europe through Europeans' Eyes: Political Sociology and EU Studies, EUSA Newsletter 19(1): 1–7. (6, 11) Haug, C. (2008) Public spheres within movements: challenging the (re)search for a European public sphere. RECON working paper 2008/02: http://www.reconproject.eu/main.php/RECON_wp_0802.pdf?fileitem=50511946 (5) Jessop, B. (2016) Territory, Politics, Governance and Multispatial Metagovernance, Territory, Politics, Governance 4(1): 8-32. (3d, 7) Karolewski, I.P. & Kaina, V. (eds.) (2012) Civic Resources and the Future of the European Union. Abingdon: Routledge. Chapters by Smith (125-145) and Fossum & Eldholm (146-195). (6) Keane, J. (2000) 'Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere' in Hacker, K. & van Dijk, J. (eds.) Digital Democracy: issues of theory and practice, London: Sage: 70-89. (10) Nikolaidis, K. (2020) In praise of ambivalence - another Brexit story. Journal of European Integration 42(4): 465-488. (9) Penissat, E. & Rowell, J. (2015) The Creation of a European Socio-economic Classification: Limits of Expert-driven Statistical Integration, Journal of European Integration (37:2): 281-297. (5) Peters, B. (2006) Forms of Informality: Identifying Informal Governance in the European Union, Perspectives on European Politics and Society 7(1): 25-40. (1, 2) Recchi, E. et al. (2019) Everyday Europe. Social transnationalism in an unsettled continent. Bristol: Policy Press. (10) Reed-Danahay, D. (2020) Brexit, Liminality, and Ambiguities of Belonging. French Citizens in London. Ethnologia Europaea 50(2): 16-31. (8) Saurugger, S. (2010) The Social Construction of the Participatory Turn: The Emergence of a Norm in the European Union, European Journal of Political Research 49(4): 471–95. (5, 8) Smith, S. & Dalakioudidou, E. (2009) Contextualising public (e)Participation in the governance of the European Union, European Journal of ePractice 7. (9) Sternberg, C. (2016) Public opinion in the EU institutions' discourses on EU legitimacy from the beginnings of integration to today, Politique Européenne 54: 25-56. (1, 2) Wilken, L. (2012) ‘Anthropological Studies of European Identity Construction’. In: Kockel, U., Nic Craith, M. and Frykman, J. (eds) A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell . |
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Poslední úprava: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (31.01.2022)
In 2022 the course will be taught entirely online. Lectures will be recorded. Each lecture will be available to download from Moodle every Monday. The slides are available in advance, but I may make slight alterations week by week as we work through the course. There will be four seminars in weeks 5, 7, 9, and 11 (Mondays at 17:00-18:20) which will take place through Zoom. We will discuss the topics for the short written assignments. Students must participate in one of the four seminars according to their choice of assignment. Students may also join the other three seminars if they want to. Final exam Assessment: ●Short written seminar assignment (20%) ○written assignment on any one of four topics. Deadline: date of the relevant seminar. ●End of semester exam (80%) ○written assignment / essay to be done at home. Deadline: end of exam period (30.6.22 or 9.9.22) ○length: about 3 000 words; to include at least 5 references from the course reading list and at least 2 other references not on the reading list Grading system 91- 100 points: A - excellent (outstanding performance with only minor mistakes) 81 - 90 points: B - very good (above average performance with some mistakes) 71 - 80 points: C - good (overall good performance with a number of notable mistakes) 61 - 70 points: D - satisfactory (acceptable performance with significant mistakes) 51 - 60 points: E - sufficient (performance fulfils only minimum criteria) less than 51 points: F - insufficient/failed (more effort needs to be made)
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Poslední úprava: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (31.01.2022)
Weekly Programme 1. Introduction: how do we study Europe sociologically? 2. Europe as institutional field versus Europe as social space and process 3. Multiple sociologies of European integration: a. field theory, b. sociology of knowledge, c. social movement theory, d. communication and discourse studies, e. sociology of critique 4. Grammars of justification: apologetic and critical discourses on Europe 5. Hierarchy, market or network: what kind of governance regime(s) is the European Union? 6. The integration of a European public sphere 7. Mobilising Europe’s civic resources for problem-solving, re-legitimisation and autonomy 8. Public participation in European integration 9. Case study 1: enrolling statistics, measures and surveys in European integration 10. Case study 2: Brexit 11. Case study 3: grassroots collective action and radical European utopias |