Trade union politics as a countermovement? A Polaniyan perspective

Seeliger, Martin

doi:10.5771/2566-7742-2019-1-5

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“…Protest campaigns also mobilized various mets of social movements and civil society organizations as well as trade unions around specific EU policies through a combination of protest and advocacy tactics (e.g. Leiren and Parks, 2014; Erne, 2008; Turnbull, 2010; Bieler, 2011; Parks, 2015; Seelinger, 2019). At the organizational level, EU-wide networks have remained active beyond national borders, at times developing cross-national ties around highly symbolic struggles.…”

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Progressive Social Movements and the Creation of European Public Spheres

Porta

2022

Theory, Culture & Society

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While the normative debate on European integration has addressed the importance of the construction of truly democratic institutions as well as the establishment of social rights at EU level, the role of progressive social movements has not been much debated. Building upon theorization and research in social movement studies, I argue that progressive social movements are indeed already contributing to the construction of European public spheres. Not one liberal (or bourgeois), public sphere but the proliferation of subaltern counterpublics could allow for the participation of the excluded, giving them the possibility to make their political voice heard. Through different paths of Europeanization (in particular, domestication, externalization and transnationalization), progressive social movements have played an important role in the creation of a critical public sphere as, by contesting European institutions, they have contributed to make them (more) accountable, but have also developed collective identities at EU level and, with them, European public spheres. A main challenge is now to connect an emancipatory critical public to public institutions.

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