Europe's Prolonged Crisis: The Making or the Unmaking of a Political Union

by Virginie Guiraudon (Editor), Carlo Ruzza (Editor), Hans-Jörg Trenz (Editor)

Overview

This collection presents a political sociology of crisis in Europe. Focusing on state and society transformations in the context of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath in Europe, it observes a return of redistributive conflicts that correlates with a 'new politics of identity', nationalism, regionalism and expressions of Euroscepticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137493668
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/29/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Marcos Ancelovici, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada Paul Blokker, University of Trento, Italy Thomas P. Boje, Roskilde University, Denmark Mai'a K. Davis Cross, Northeastern University, US and ARENA Centre for European Studies, Norway Klaus Eder, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany John Erik Fossum, University of Oslo, Norway Virginie Guiraudon, French National Centre for Scientific Research at the Sciences Po Center for European Studies, France Dietmar Loch, University of Lille1, France Xinru Ma University of Southern California, USA Juan Díez Medrano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Asimina Michailidou, University of Oslo, Norway Ov Cristian Norocel, University of Helsinki, Finland and Skholm University, Sweden Espen D. H. Olsen, University of Oslo, Norway Ettore Recchi, Sciences Po, France Carlo Ruzza, University of Trento, Italy Justyna Salamońska, European University Institute, Italy Dennis Smith, Loughborough University, UK Hans-Jörg Trenz, Universityof Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Oslo, Norway

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Eurocrisis: Contributions from Political Sociology; Hans-Jörg Trenz, Carlo Ruzza and Virginie Guiraudon
PART I: STATE/SOCIETY RELATIONS
1. Not Just Singing the Blues: Dynamics of the EU Crisis; Dennis Smith
2. The Crisis and the Question of De-parliamentarisation in Europe; John-Erik Fossum
3. Constitutional Alternatives to the Crisis: A Political Sociological Approach to European ' 'anti-politics ' '; Paul Blokker
PART II: EUROPEAN CRISIS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL RESILIENCE
4. Eurocrisis and EU Citizenship; Espen D. H. Olsen
5. Individual and Collective Responses to Crisis: An Analytical Framework for the Study of Social Resilience; Juan Díez Medrano
6. Bad Times, Good Times to Move? The Changing Landscape of Intra-EU Migration; Ettore Recchi and Justyna Salamońska
PART III: PARTICIPATION, PROTEST AND THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA
Part 3: Participation, protest and the role of the media
7. Organised Civil Society, Participation and Citizenship in Europe. The Impact of the Economic and Social Crisis; Thomas Boje
8. Crisis, Advocacy and Discrimination; Carlo Ruzza
9. Crisis and Contention in Europe: A Political Process Account of Anti-Austerity Protests; Marcos Ancelovici
10. A Media Perspective on European Crises; Mai ' 'a K. Davis Cross and Xinru Ma
11. The European Crisis and the Media: Media Autonomy, Public Perceptions and New Forms of Political Engagement; Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz
12. The Populist Radical Right in Europe: A Xenophobic Voice in the Global Economic Crisis; Dietmar Loch and Ov Cristian Norocel
Afterword: The crisis of Europe – a Case of Creative Destruction: Descandalizing the Crisis of Europe as an Experimental Case of Social Evolution; Klaus Eder

Editorial Reviews

This is an ambitious collection, bringing together a diverse group of scholars in an attempt to understand what the ongoing crisis in Europe means for relationships on the continent. … The book will be of interest to readers seeking to understand the impacts of the European crisis across a variety of settings. It also serves as a useful marker of the utility of political sociology and a point from which future research can depart.” (European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Vol. 4 (2), 2017)

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