Social Movements and Europeanization by Manuela Caiani (English) Hardcover Book

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This volume addresses the relationship between social movements and Europe, locating contemporary social movements in a broader scenario of political conflicts around European integration.

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Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU, or do they disrupt the process of EU integration? This book includes surveys of activists at international protest events targeting the European Union (for a total of about 5000 interviews); a discourse analysis ofdocuments and transcripts of debates on European politics and policies conducted during the four European social forums held between 2002 and 2006 and involving hundreds of social movement organizations andtens of thousands of activists from all European countries; about 320 interviews with representatives of civil society organizations in six EU countries (France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy) and one non-member state (Switzerland), and a systematic claims analysis of the daily press in selected years between 1990 and 2003. The empirical research shows the different paths of Europeanization taken by social movements and civil society organizations.

Author Biography

Donatella Della Porta is professor of sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, where she teaches courses on political sociology, transformations in democracy, social movements and civil society as well as qualitative methods and research designs. She has received a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and a Ph.D in political and social sciences at theEuropean University Institute in Florence. In 1990 she received a Career Development Award of the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation in 1997 a Stipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. She has conductedresearch, among others, at Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. Her main research interests concern social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, police and policies of public order. Manuela Caiani works for the VETO project on "Processes of Radicalisation and Violent Political Activism", focussing on right wing extremism in several European countries (Germany, Italy) and the USA. She works in the Department of Politicaland Social Sciences at the European University Institute as a research assistant. She has received a Ph.D in political and social sciences at the University of Florence in 2006 with a thesis on "The PublicDiscourse on Europe: An empirical research on the Italian case". In 2005, she received a funding award from the Italian CNR (Centro Nazionale della Ricerca), for a research project on "Cultural Identity, multiculturalism and European Integration" in 2007 she worked for the European Commission, for the elaboration of a literature review on the subject of violent radicalisation (contract n. JLSD 1/2006/12/02). Her main research interests concern social movements, Europeanization, politicalviolence and right wing extremism, social capital.

Table of Contents

1: Social Movements and Europeanisation: An introduction2: Europeanisation and the Domestication of Protest3: The Search for EU Alliances: An Externalisation of Protest?4: The Emergence of European Movements?5: Euro-sceptic or critical Europeanists? Some conclusionsAppendixBibliography

Review

Perceiving contestation as a pre-condition for the emergence of a European public sphere, Manuela Caiani and Donatella della Porta are primarily concerned about one question: to what extent are we witnessing a Europeanization of social movements?... Della Porta and Caiani have shown that there is a form of European criticism emerging, which is fundamentally different from nationalist Euroscepticism on which research has focused in the past. Roland Erne, University College Dublin, writing for Journal of Common Market Studies Overall, this book offers a very clear and succinct analysis of the relationship between the process of Europeanization and social movements...The clarity of the analysis makes the book accessible to those who are not experts in the field. Rebecca Zahn, European Journal of International Law

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Addresses the relationship between social movements and Europe, locating contemporary social movements in a broader scenario of political conflicts around European integration

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Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU, or do they disrupt the process of EU integration? This book includes surveys of activists at international protest events targeting the European Union (for a total of about 5000 interviews); a discourse analysis ofdocuments and transcripts of debates on European politics and policies conducted during the four European social forums held between 2002 and 2006 and involving hundreds of social movement organizations and tens of thousands of activists from all European countries; about 320 interviews withrepresentatives of civil society organizations in six EU countries (France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy) and one non-member state (Switzerland), and a systematic claims analysis of the daily press in selected years between 1990 and 2003. The empirical research shows the different paths of Europeanization taken by social movements and civil society organizations.

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"Perceiving contestation as a pre-condition for the emergence of a European public sphere, Manuela Caiani and Donatella della Porta are primarily concerned about one question: to what extent are we witnessing a Europeanization of social movements'...Della Porta and Caiani have shown that there is a form of European criticism emerging, which is fundamentally different from nationalist Euroscepticism on which research has focused in the past."--Journal of Common Market Studies "This book offers a clear and succinct analysis of the relationship between the process of Europeanization and social movements...The clarity of the analysis makes the book accessible to those who are not experts in the field."--European Journal of International Law

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Will appeal to the large and interdisciplinary communities of scholars working on social movements and EuropeanizationBased on rich empirical research

Details ISBN0199557780 Author Donatella della Porta Short Title SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & EUROPEANIZA Language English ISBN-10 0199557780 ISBN-13 9780199557783 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2009 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations Yes Residence US Affiliation European University Institute Professor of Sociology, European Univers UK Release Date 2009-05-14 AU Release Date 2009-05-14 NZ Release Date 2009-05-14 Birth 1955 Position Henry Marshall Tory Professor Qualifications OBE Pages 232 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2009-05-14 Alternative 9780199604401 DEWEY 303.482 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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