Narrating European society : toward a sociology of European integration / Hans-Jörg Trenz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trenz, Hans-Jörg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European federation.

Regionalism--Europe.

Regionalism.

Institution building.

Europe.

Institution building--Europe.

Social integration--Europe.

Social integration.

Europe--Economic integration.

International economic integration.

Physical Description:

xxii, 187 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

Hans-Jörg Trenz introduces a sociological perspective on European integration by looking at different accounts of Europeanization as society building. He describes how European integration has been powerfully launched in postwar Europe as a normative venture that comprises polity and society building, how it became ingrained in every-day life histories and experiences: how it was 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Integration of What?: Toward a European Society or the Europeanization of National Societies? 1

2 The Triumph of Europe: Europeanization as a Success Story 31

3 Banal Europeanization 55

4 From Triumph to Trauma: Resistance to Europeanization 79

5 The Crisis of Europeanization 113.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Trenz, Hans-Jörg, author. Narrating European society.

ISBN:

9781498527057

1498527051

OCLC:

930068100