ISBN:
9780415347136
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (241 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Rethinking Europe : Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization
DDC:
301.094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue that we need a theory of society in order to understand Europeanization. This book advances the case that Europeanization should be theorized in terms of:globalization major social transformations that are not exclusively spear-headed by the EU the wider context of the transformation of modernity. This fascinating book broadens the terms of the debate on Europeanization, conventionally limited to the supersession of t
Description / Table of Contents:
Rethinking Europe Social theory and the implicationsof Europeanization; Copyright; Contents; 1 Theorizing Europeanization: towards a constructivist theory of society; Why a theory of society?; Europeanization, globalization and social theory; Europeanization between integration and differentiation; Europeanization from a social constructivist perspective; Recognition, cosmopolitanism and Europe; Main themes of the book; 2 History, modernity, and the multiple conceptions of Europe: European transformation in historical perspective; Borders and definitions of Europe
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The European civilizational constellationMultiple modernities and European transformation; Implications of the enlargement of European Union; Conclusion: towards a post-western Europe?; 3 Is there a European identity? European self-understanding beyond unity and diversity; Some conceptual issues; Defining European identity; Unity in diversity - a new European repertoire of evaluation?; Neither the one nor many; Conclusion: beyond the diversity myth; 4 What does it mean to be a 'European'? The possibility of cosmopolitan loyalties; Americans and Europeans; Cosmopolitanism and Europeanness
Description / Table of Contents:
The possibility of cosmopolitan loyalties: is there a European loyalty?The European Union and dilemmas of loyalty; Conclusion: post-national loyalty?; 5 The new cultural logic of Europeanization: citizenship, memory, and public discourse; European post-national citizenship; Globalization and the nation: cosmopolitan imaginaries; Spheres of memory: commemoration and the politics of peoplehood; Is there a European 'people'?; Conclusion: Europeanization and public culture; 6 The European Social Model: from welfare state to learning society and beyond; The emergence of a European social model
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The learning society and the European social modelConclusion: Europe in search of a society; 7 Organizing European space: borderlands, 'undivided Europe' and spatiality beyond territory; Social theory and space; 'Undivided Europe': proximity and neighbourhood politics; Borderlands and European space; Conclusion: the 'dynamic space' of the European Union; 8 The European Union as non-state: the spatialization of EU governance; Social theory, the state, and governance; Constructing EU governance; Conclusion: a new model of European governance; 9 Towards a European polity? Europe meets the world
Description / Table of Contents:
Definitional issuesPolity and the new governance agenda; Re-thinking polity: the global context; Conclusion: towards a theory of society?; 10 Rethinking European society: the global civil society context; The neglected global dimension to civil society; Global civil society as a natural realm; The question of the public sphere; Conclusion: rethinking European civil society; Conclusion: towards a cosmopolitan Europe; The dimensions of social transformation; European futures; Cosmopolitan Europe; Notes; References; Index
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