European Economic Governance in 2017: A Recovery for Whom?

Cavaghan, Rosalind; O’Dwyer, Muireann

doi:10.1111/jcms.12770

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“…Rather they are constituted discursively by both policy actors and the researchers who study these processes (Manners and Rosamond, 2018: 28). This symbiotic relationship helps to construct dominant discourses about the impact of key policy decisions and the interests that are safeguarded, or prioritised, in the process (Cavaghan and O’Dwyer, 2018). So while the dominant narrative of the economic crisis has largely been focused on sovereign debt and the financial sector, it has almost entirely erased ‘the complex dynamics of race, class, gender and legal status that have helped to determine which groups have been hardest hit by the crisis’ (Emejulu and Bassel, 2018: 110).…”

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confidence: 99%

Imagining the European Union: Gender and Digital Diplomacy in European External Relations

Wright

Guerrina

2020

Political Studies Review

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The European Union has historically sought to project outwards its identity, values and raison d’être during times of uncertainty and crisis. One of the core values stated to be at the heart of the European Union’s identity is gender equality. Yet, while gender equality features more visibly in the European Union’s external discourse as it seeks to position itself as a global leader in equality and human rights, the internal challenge posed by crisis presents a real obstacle to future developments in this area. This article examines digital diplomacy, specifically Twitter presence, as a discursive site for constituting meaning. We thus take the digital space afforded by Twitter as a site where the European Union’s internal and external identity is constructed in a process of articulation and contestation. Digital diplomacy is now a salient part of public diplomacy, increasingly prioritised over ‘traditional’ approaches. Using data gathered from Twitter on the European Union’s 60th anniversary and International Women’s Day in 2017, this article provides the first in-depth study of the European Union’s approach to digital diplomacy. We find the marginalisation of gender issues from the European Union’s core narratives bringing into question the place of gender equality as a core value of the European Union.

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confidence: 99%

Imagining the European Union: Gender and Digital Diplomacy in European External Relations

Wright

Guerrina

2020

Political Studies Review

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“…In a context where the crisis era reforms to the EU's economic governance system have become increasingly normalised (Cavaghan and O'Dwyer 2018), and as this system is being broadened out to incorporate social policy (Dawson 2018), it is essential that our understanding of the ideas of expertise that are underpinning and legitimising this regime incorporate an analysis of gender, such as that outlined in this paper. Moreover, this analysis which, helps us to understand the connections between authority and gender, race, and other identities seems to be a crucial step in interpreting and analysing our contemporary politics (O'Dwyer 2018b).…”

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confidence: 99%

Expertise in European Economic Governance: A Feminist Analysis

O’Dwyer¹

2019

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Recent years have seen a distinctive transformation in EU economic governance, including the introduction of a regime of oversight and recommendation as well as the establishment of new policymaking, oversight and expert institutions at both the European and member state levels. These changes raise questions about legal and political accountability, and about the current state of integration. Debates over the political nature of contemporary economic governance have, thus far, ignored the role that the politics of gender may be playing in constructing and legitimising this regime. While much research has documented the gendered impacts of this regime, there remains a gap in the literature concerning how gender influences the regime itself. This article addresses this gap by exploring two ways in which gender politics have shaped and legitimised the new regime. First, it explores the gendered nature of economic expertise within EU economic governance. Secondly, it explores the framing of the economic crisis, and show how the narratives of the crisis helped to create this gendered regime. The article explores the gendered nature of the process of seeking legitimacy in economic policy, and so the analysis helps to deepen the understanding of the politics behind economic policy more broadly.

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“…Further, there is a clear threat that the act of leaving the European Union will have significant consequences for gender equality . These consequences follow a pattern of austerity politics (and indeed, a pattern that goes back much further) of the burden of such politics falling disproportionately on women, and on women of colour in particular (Bassel and Emejulu, 2017;Cavaghan and O'Dwyer, 2018;Karamessini and Rubery, 2013;Strolovitch, 2013). What is of particular relevance for the argument of this article, however, is how the power of the bullshit claims of the campaign continue to have impact after the referendum.…”

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confidence: 86%