Overview
- Presents an innovative and politically-aware approach to the concept of politicisation as a heterogeneous phenomenon
- Provides wide-ranging insights to inform the debate on EU politicisation and its relation to democracy
- Transcends the view that politicisation is a "constraining" factor for EU integration to see also empowering elements
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Politicisation of the EU as a Polity
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Social Media in the Politicisation of the EU
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EU Politicisation Narratives and Patterns
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About this book
Departing from the idea that political controversies are embedded in the very framework of European integration, this volume focuses on the relationship between politicisation and European democracy. The contributors to this edited volume trace the various ways of understanding ‘politicisation’ before and beyond the 2019 European elections. The aim is to offer constructive reinterpretations of the concept for further research in the field. Encompassing different approaches, the book shows a plurality of perspectives and provides innovative analytical tools to make sense of the phenomenon of politicisation in the EU context.
Assuming that EU politicisation can be seen both as vice and virtue depending on the way in which it takes place, the authors analyse under what conditions it has a positive or negative influence over European democracy. Emphasising that scholars ought to be aware of the normative assumptions underlying the conceptualisation of politicisation, the book illustrates how many of the features in European politics that were intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic were already present earlier.
Tracing the Politicisation of the EU will be of interest to students and scholars in EU Studies, Comparative Politics, Media and Communication, Political Theory and Political Sociology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Taru Haapala is a Marie Curie fellow within the MSCA-COFUND InterTalentum programme at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and docent in Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her publications include Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action: Practices of Textual Interpretation and Analysis (2017).
Alvaro Oleart is a postdoctoral researcher at Studio Europa Maastricht and the Department of Political Science of Maastricht University, Netherlands and a scientific collaborator at the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is the author of Framing TTIP in the European Public Spheres: Towards an Empowering Dissensus for EU Integration (2021).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tracing the Politicisation of the EU
Book Subtitle: The Future of Europe Debates Before and After the 2019 Elections
Editors: Taru Haapala, Álvaro Oleart
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82700-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82699-4Published: 02 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82702-1Published: 03 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82700-7Published: 02 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 314
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Sociology