Europe's prolonged crisis: The making or the unmaking of a political Union?

The contributors to a forthoming book Europe's prolonged crisis: The making or the unmaking of a political Union, edited by Virginie Guiraudon, Carlo Ruzza and Hans-Jörg Trenz, will gather at ARENA in workshop to discuss draft chapters.

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The main objective of the book is to investigate the multiple dimensions of the current crisis in Europe and the ways it challenges the sustainability of political order at national, European and global level from a perspective of political sociology.

The contributions use different empirical angles to analyze how the current crisis affects patterns of social exclusion and conflict but also how it activates social networks and new forms of solidarity and social cohesion – locally and transnationally.

Programme

Thursday November 5

13.30 Registration

13.45 Opening

00.00 Words of welcome
00.00 Erik Oddvar Eriksen, ARENA Centre for European Studies

00.00 Europe in crises
00.00 John Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies


14.15–15.15 Introduction

14.15 The Eurocrisis: Contributions from political sociology
00.00 Virginie Guiraudon, Centre d'études européennes de Sciences Po
00.00 Carlo Ruzza, University of Leicester and University of Trento
00.00 Hans-Jörg Trenz, ARENA Centre for European Studies

14.45 Discussant
00.00 Klaus Eder, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

00.00 Debate

15.15 Coffee


15.30–17.15 Session 1: State/society relations. Chair: Erik Oddvar Eriksen

15.30 The EU crisis and the dynamics of forced displacement
00.00 Dennis Smith, Loughborough University

15.50 The Crisis: A challenge to representative democracy in the European Union?
00.00 John-Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies

16.10 Rethinking the state in times of crisis. Vulnerable groups in a composite
00.00 (or multi-level) polity
00.00 Virginie Guiraudon, Centre d'études européennes de Sciences Po

16.30­ Discussant
00.00 Carlo Ruzza, University of Leicester and University of Trento

Debate

19.30 Dinner


Friday, November 6

09.00–10.30 Session 2: Rights and participation. Chair: John Erik Fossum

09.00 Crisis resilience through EU citizenship
00.00 Espen D.H. Olsen, ARENA Centre for European Studies

09.20 Organised civil society, participation and citizenship in Europe
00.00 The impact of the economic and social crisis
00.00 Thomas Boje, Roskilde University

09.40 Bad times, good times to move? The changing landscape of intra-EU migration
00.00 Ettore Recchi, University of Chieti
00.00 Justyna Salamonska, University of Chieti

10.00 Discussant
00.00 Virginie Guiraudon, Centre d'études européennes de Sciences Po

Debate

10.30 Coffee


10.45–12.30 Session 3: Public opinion, media and mobilization. Chair: Carlo Ruzza

10.45 The European crisis in the media:
00.00 Media autonomy, public perceptions and new forms of political engagement
00.00 Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz, ARENA Centre for European Studies

11.05 EU crises and the international media
00.00 Mai'a K. Davis Cross, ARENA Centre for European Studies

11.25 Constitutional alternatives to the crisis:
00.00 A political sociological approach to European ‘anti-politics’
00.00 Paul Blokker, University of Trento

11.50 Discussant
00.00 Tore Slaatta, University of Oslo

Debate

12.30­ Lunch


13.30–15.00 Session 4: Political Mobilisation. Chair: Virginie Guiraudan

13.30 Crisis, advocacy and discrimination
00.00 Carlo Ruzza, University of Leicester and University of Trento

13.50 Crisis and contention in Europe
00.00 Marcos Ancelovici, Université du Québec à Montréal

14.10 The populist radical right in Europe
00.00 A xenophobic voice in the global economic crisis
00.00 Dietmar Loch, Université Pierre-Mendès-France
00.00 Cristian Norocel, University of Helsinki

14.30 Discussant: Hans-Jörg Trenz, ARENA Centre for European Studies

Debate

‰15.00 Coffee


15.15–16.15 Concluding Session. Chair: Hans-Jörg Trenz

15.15 Reflections on the outlines of a European political sociology
00.00 Klaus Eder, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Debate

16.00 Concluding remarks and further procedures
00.00 Virginie Guiraudon, Carlo Ruzza and Hans-Jörg Trenz

19.30 Dinner

More information

Please note that the workshop is restricted to invited participants.
For more information contact Kadri Miard at ARENA.

 

Published Nov. 28, 2013 9:27 AM - Last modified Dec. 3, 2013 12:16 PM