Diversity, Polity, and the European Public Sphere

Sicakkan, Hakan G.

doi:10.1080/13183222.2012.11009075

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“…And yet there is hardly research on multiple and transnational projections of immigrants in public spaces (see for example Adamson 2001), particularly in cases where public immigrant actors perform national belonging in multiple national public spaces. These formerly bounded national spaces of communication have been transcended in recent decades (Sicakkan 2012). Therefore, we aim to analyze how Turkish German immigrant football players articulate their belonging to one (or more) collective(s) in a transnational space, that is, in their countries of both destiny (Germany) and origin (Turkey), and how this relates to the overall research question of how debates of national belonging evolve in international football.…”

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Games of Belonging: Football, Boundaries and Politics between Germany and Turkey

Metzger¹,

Özvatan

2020

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International football is a field for national identity performances in which narratives of national belonging are articulated. Games of belonging capture discourses on and debates over national belonging. Up-and-coming national football team diversity, and its public promotion, was expected to facilitate boundary blurring in the politics of belonging; however, it caused highly contentious debates revolving around the question of who belongs to Germany and Turkey and who does not. For this reason, we ask how (ethnoculturally) diverse national football teams challenge established narratives of national belonging and, thereby, trigger debates over national belonging across time and space. We compared the media discourse on national team diversity in Germany and Turkey with a special focus on players who disrupt conceptions of ethnic and cultural homogeneity, namely Mesut Özil and Nuri Şahin. Our study illustrates that upcoming international football events constitute games of belonging. Actors from the media, football associations, and politics largely demanded unilateral national belonging from the disrupters, Özil and Şahin. Both players’ reactions, however, draw on conceptions of (trans-)national belonging which challenge and conflict with established narratives of (ethno-)national belonging.

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Games of Belonging: Football, Boundaries and Politics between Germany and Turkey

Metzger¹,

Özvatan

2020

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“…Before the European Union even existed, there had been a considerable horizontal transnational integration through cooperation between different nation-level organizations in Europe. The Eurosphere research shows that this process of building a horizontal European civil society, without the involvement of the European Union, is still going on (Creutz-Kampi et al, 2011;Sicakkan 2012a;Van de Beek, Vermeulen & Lagerspetz, 2011). The development of the European Union as a transnational political system within Europe has resulted in a middle layer of civil society (trans-European networks of civilsociety organizations), European party federations as well as transnational party alliances in the European Parliament.…”

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“…The lack of common identity and common media makes it difficult for the European Union to gain democratic legitimacy. The literature speaks of a process of 'Europeanization' of the national public sphere (Favell, 2000;Sicakkan 2012a). The differences between the nascent EPS and the public spheres in the member-states are rather a matter of degree.…”

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The French Republican model, the European Diversity Perspective and the European Public Sphere

Dressler

Sicakkan²,

Fuga

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ACL(facteur d'impact)International audienceThis article discusses some findings of a European research project led by Bergen University, 'Eurosphere: Diversity and the European Public Sphere - Towards a Citizens' Europe'. The project aimed to evaluate perceptions of the construction of a European Public Sphere and of transnational relations among specific social actors interviewed in 16 European countries, between 2007 and 2012. In this particular article, the authors first examine reactions to the European Diversity Directive in France among three political parties (2 majority and 1 minority), three think-tanks, three NGO/SMO, and four media. Analysis of their attitudes towards diversity reveals a Girondin/Jacobincleavage across actors. The Directive on Diversity is estimated to have had a positive impact in France because it obliged organizations and institutions to position themselves and revisit the debate on racial and postcolonial questions and on the European role in the democratization process of European societies. Concerning the relationship between the French and the EU's attempts to build a European public sphere, we find not so much a European Public Sphere understood in the thick sense of the concept but, rather, a progressive Europeanization of the French national public sphere.Cet article est une présentation synthétique des résultats du projet de recherche européen conduit par l'université de Bergen, 'Eurosphere: Diversity and the European Public Sphere - Towards a Citizens' Europe'. Son but était l'évaluation de la construction d'une sphère publique européenne auprès d'acteurs sociaux spécifiques interrogés dans 16 pays européens, entre 2007 et 2012. Le principal axe de réflexion fut la mise en oeuvre de la Directive européenne sur la Diversité. Il s'efforce, tout d'abord, de rendre compte de la réception de la Directive en France auprès de trois partis politiques majoritaires et petits partis régionaux, trois think-tanks, trois mouvements sociaux/ NGO et quatre media. L'article met en évidence le clivage girondin/jacobin dans la réception en France de la directive Diversité: celui-ci traverse presque tous les acteurs, souvent au profit d'un discours républicain/jacobin, qui semble se durcir aujourd'hui mais qui associe chez tous les acteurs la nécessité d'associer étroitement les préoccupations sociales à celle de la diversité dans sa mise-en-oeuvre au sein du modèle républicain. Il évalue positivement l'impact de cette directive en France dans la mesure où elle a obligé organisations et institutions à se positionner par rapport à elle et à reposer notamment le débat sur la question raciale et post-coloniale et sur le rôle de l'Europe dans le processus de démocratisation des sociétés européennes. Concernant la relation entre les tentatives européennes et françaises de construire une sphère publique européenne, nous avons trouvé qu'il n'existe non pas tant une sphère publique européenne qu'une européanisation progressive de la sphère publique française

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Joint purpose? Intersectionality in the hands of anti-racist and gender equality activists in Europe

Nielsen

2012

Ethnicities

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Taking as a start Crenshaw's point that anti-racism often fails to interrogate patriarchy and that feminism often reproduces racist practices (1991: 1252), this paper asks what are the theoretical reasons for believing that feminism and anti-racism can be regarded as fighting for the joint purpose of anti-discrimination in Europe today? And what empirical evidence may be found for such a joint approach? The paper discusses how the contemporary EU context differs from the American context, which is what prompted Crenshaw to raise the point about intersectionality, and it analyses documents and interviews from each of the two European umbrella organisations (the European Women's Lobby and the European Network against Racism), as well as a number of their national member organisations from across Europe, within both EU and non-EU member states.Crenshaw wrote in 1991 that:The failure of feminism to interrogate race means that resistance strategies of feminism will often replicate and reinforce the subordination of people of color, and the Ethnicities 13(3) 276-294

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Diversity, Polity, and the European Public Sphere

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Games of Belonging: Football, Boundaries and Politics between Germany and Turkey

Games of Belonging: Football, Boundaries and Politics between Germany and Turkey

The French Republican model, the European Diversity Perspective and the European Public Sphere

Joint purpose? Intersectionality in the hands of anti-racist and gender equality activists in Europe

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