Social Movements and Europeanization

Donatella della Porta author Manuela Caiani author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:23rd Jun '11

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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 of documents 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 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.

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

ISBN: 9780199604401

Dimensions: 229mm x 157mm x 14mm

Weight: 380g

230 pages