Kritische Theorie heute

Baum, Markus; Demirović, Alex; Dhawan, Nikita; Druwe, Ulrich; Holznienkemper, Alex; Hürbin, Philippe Bernhard; Karolewski, Ireneusz Paweł; Kempf, Victor; Kreide, Regina; Kulke, Christine; Kurth, Lukas; Jörke, Ina-Maria Maahs; Mancheno, Tania; Niesen, Peter; Prinz, Janosch; Rehm, Rafael; Saar, Martin O.; Wessel, Julia Schulze; Seyferth, Peter; Vennmann, Stefan

doi:10.3224/zpth.v8i1.04

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“…The aligned discourses ‘are articulated around the idea of “taking back control of the nation”’ and emphasise a ‘notion of sovereignty that is strongly spatialized within the boundaries of the nation-state’ (Casaglia and Coletti in Casaglia et al, 2020: 1). And such (perceptions of) heteronomy facilitates entry points for what the sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer (2020) refers to as ‘fear exploiters’ to instil a populist, nationalist, fascist dominance of the debate (see also Dijkstra et al, 2020; Eribon, 2013; Karolewski, 2017).…”

Section: The Dual Simultaneities Process–discourse and Integration–di...mentioning

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Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

Bachmann

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The European Union (EU) has long projected the vision of an integrating Europe, centred on successful regional integration, as a better geopolitical model in comparison to ‘others’, such as the Cold War superpowers, US neoconservativism or diverse autocratic regimes. The purported superiority of the ‘European model’ is thereby linked to credibly advancing the story of successful regional integration – internally as well as externally. This article suggests a narrative continuum between EU-optimism and EU-scepticism and argues that perceptions about the ‘success’ of the EU as a model for regional integration have changed between the first and the second decade of the new millennium. As part of this shift, EU-scepticism has gained in prominence over EU-optimism. This is related to a series of geopolitical ruptures since the late 2000s, in particular, the financial crisis, disputes on human mobility and border management, rising nationalism, Brexit and other right-wing populist movements across the continent. Focussing on the divisions within the EU as regards financial and migration policy, this article highlights three interrelated simultaneities. It argues (a) that process and discourse of (b) integration and disintegration have (c) internal and external dimensions. Empirically, it builds on interviews with African and European geopolitical elites that have been conducted as part of two research projects on external perceptions of the EU in East Africa between 2010 and 2018. It thus offers a snapshot on the shift of both ‘internal’ and ‘external’ perceptions of the EU against the context of wider geopolitical transformations over the course of this decisive decade.

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Section: The Dual Simultaneities Process–discourse and Integration–di...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

Bachmann

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Kritische Soziale Arbeit: Ein Muss, kein Kann

Rieger

2023

Soziale Arbeit Und Gesellschaftliche Transformation Zwischen Exklusion Und Inklusion

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An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School

Bachmann,

Moisio

2024

Cooperation and Conflict

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The European Union (EU) functions as a productive power in the process of expanding the global knowledge economy. As such, it contributes to the planetary organic crisis – as opposed to its claim of countering it. In making this argument, we focus on two of the five dimensions identified by Manners as constitutive of the planetary organic crisis: sociomaterial inequality and ethnonationalism. Both dimensions are of fundamental concern to the normative power approach (NPA) and the Frankfurt School (FS) critical theory. We critically scrutinise how knowledge-based economisation, as the latest phase of capitalist expansion, hierarchises different spaces within and between states. Such sociospatial hierarchisations are often accompanied by alienation processes and are, thus, detrimental for the functioning of the democratic state. While both NPA and the FS share the ambition to work against such hierarchisation, they also share the dilemma of how to advance normative values in a non-authoritarian, non-imperial way. We thus suggest for both the FS and the NPA, and for the EU as geopolitical actor, to draw inspiration from a broader understanding of ‘critical theories’, including postcolonial, feminist or critical race theories as a necessary step to de-imperialise both our theoretical understanding and the EU’s global role.

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Kritische Theorie heute

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Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

Kritische Soziale Arbeit: Ein Muss, kein Kann

An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School

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