| (Un)Doing Europe: Discourses and Practices of Negotiating the Eu Constitution Contributor(s): Strath, Bo (Editor), Krzyzanowski, Michael (Author), Oberhuber, Florian (Author) |
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ISBN: 9052010323 ISBN-13: 9789052010328 Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques OUR PRICE: $51.82 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | International - Language Arts & Disciplines | Public Speaking & Speech Writing - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 341.242 |
| LCCN: 2008374071 |
| Series: Multiple Europes |
| Physical Information: 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After successive waves of enlargement , the European Union has been struggling with political integration. The project of the constitutionalisation of the EU was therefore launched to cater to a growing need of institutional reform, but it also intensified debates about the underlying conceptions, norms and values of the European polity as well as the meanings and identities of entire Europe. This book approaches the ongoing legal and political re-construction of the EU through a focus on the Convention on the Future of Europe (2002-2003) which produced a draft of the EU's first constitution. The Convention is studied from a multidisciplinary perspective integrating approaches from ethnography of institutions, political sociology and linguistically-based discourse-analysis. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and multiple textual data, the book offers an inside perspective on the multitude of ways in which politics in supranational environments works in practice. The book also contributes to the ongoing research on the discursive (re-)negotiations of meanings of Europe and European integration in the institutions of the European Union. |