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The Challenges of Brexit and COVID
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Editorial
- Pages:
- v–vi
It Was Not Meant to Be This Way
An Unfortunate Case of Anglo-Saxon Parochialism?
Tom Frost
I wrote the first draft of this article at the end of August 2016. 1 The United Kingdom’s advisory referendum on European Union (EU) membership was only two months’ past. In those two months, the U.K. replaced a Prime Minister, our main
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 53–74 (22 total)
Immigrant Rights and Regional Inclusion
Democratic Experimentalism in the European Union
Jonathan Bowman
Although justification and implementation of human rights are typically dealt with as separate issues, the lines between them become particularly opaque when dealing with contested rights claims, particularly those made by immigrant groups. The relevant lessons from Europe seem to indicate that in these sorts of cases, questions of justification can become embedded in deliberative practices that lead to their greater institutional entrenchment. The heterogeneity of deliberative practices out of diverse Member State administrative contexts can be turned into an epistemic virtue when including additional perspectives that increase the likelihood of avoiding error and alleviating bias. With a focus on immigrant rights in the EU, I first give a stylized rendition of the shortcomings of three views—post-national rights theorists, liberal nationalists, and cosmopolitans. In contrast, experimentalists highlight the democratic potential of realizing rights on a pragmatic model of the Open Method of Coordination that better responds to regional problems not necessarily tied to a single site of sovereignty. Since immigrants in the EU are party to multiple overlapping political communities, the democratic justification of rights in contested cases can be directly tied to this novel institutional implementation, forging a modified social imaginary in the process for all affected actors.
The Accession Pedagogy
Power and Politics in Turkey's Bid for EU Membership
Bilge Firat
From 1989, new plans to enlarge the EU caused growing public disenchantment with the future of European integration as a viable model of cooperation among states and peoples in Europe. To manage disenchantment, EU actors designed various policy tools and techniques in their approaches to European peripheries such as Turkey. Among these, they intensified and perfected processes of pedagogy where EU actors assume that they have unique knowledge of what it means to be 'European' and that they must teach accession candidates how to become true Europeans. Based on accounts of EU politicians and officials, past experiences of government officials from former EU candidate states and Turkish officials' encounters with the EU's accession pedagogy, this article explores the EU's enlargement policy as a pedagogical engagement and the responses it elicits among Turkish governmental representatives, in order to test the reconfigurations of power between Europe and the countries on its margins.
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 99–120 (21 total)
Policymaking in the Italian Courts
The Affermazione Civile Project and the Struggle over Recognition of Rights for Same-sex Couples in Italy
Lauren A. Anaya
In this article, I use the current struggle over recognition of rights for same-sex couples in Italy as a window on larger policymaking processes. Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti is leading the charge for the recognition of rights for same-sex couples in Italy with its innovative national campaign Affermazione Civile that seeks to obtain marriage equality for same-sex couples in Italy through the deployment of judicial initiatives. Through the Affermazione Civile project, Italian LGBTI rights activists successfully circumvent national politics and advance recognition of same-sex couples' rights in Italy. I argue that recent policy changes with respect to the treatment of this group are direct products of the EU's influence on the national judicial system and demonstrate a continuing trend towards increased judicial activism at the expense of national politics. This article illustrates how the EU influences the making of national public policy outside the economic realm in unanticipated and unintended ways.
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 40–58 (18 total)
Hesitant Recognition
Toward a Crop Ontology among Sugar Beet Farmers in Western Poland
Dong Ju Kim
In response to climate change, sustainability has become the keyword for exploring alternative ways of cultivation in different parts of the world. However, local farmers still understand these sustainable alternatives in terms of soil nutrients and their absorption by crops. I examine how sugar beet farmers in western Poland read the condition of crops and field conditions, and accordingly try to cope with agricultural droughts in spring and early summer. While they maintain a practical position that is extremely inductivist, they simultaneously allow for symbolic, indexical meanings. These meanings of farming practices are multilayered and evoke relationships, local histories, and traditions. The farmers accept the reality of climate change only hesitantly, and their aspiration of gaining recognition in Europe has only started to penetrate the multilayered indexical meanings of farming practices.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 299–314 (16 total)
Israel and East-Central Europe
Case Studies of Israel's Relations with Poland and Hungary
Joanna Dyduch
Israel to revise its strategies toward Europe, the European Union, and the individual countries there. Israel's immediate reaction to the new circumstances was an openly expressed hope that the new EU member states (MS) would become the Jewish State
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 7–25 (19 total)
Ian Mahoney and Tony Kearon
—like many other economically deprived, deindustrialized areas of the English Midlands and North—received significant support from the European Union Regional Development Fund (ERDF) which helped to stimulate the local economy, providing employment to those
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–20 (20 total)
Policy coherence for development and migration
Analyzing US and EU policies through the lens of normative transformation
Harlan Koff
The European Union’s 2015–2016 “migration/asylum crisis” gave renewed prominence to discussions over the relationship between migration, security and development in global affairs. The EU’s policy responses to these flows have confirmed that
In Regions and Cohesion
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 5–33 (29 total)
The Euro, The Gold Standard, and German Power
A Cautionary Tale
Beverly Crawford Ames and Armon Rezai
. We argue here that it can survive only if a liberal hegemon in Europe uses its resources to underwrite cooperation in the European Union ( eu ) by transferring resources from the core to stimulate growth in the periphery. That liberal hegemon should
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 77–104 (28 total)