Everyday Europe

Recchi, Ettore; Favell, Adrian; Apaydin, Fulya; Barbulescu, Roxana; Braun, Michael; Ciornei, Irina; Cunningham, Niall; Medrano, Juan Díez; Duru, Deniz Neriman; Hanquinet, Laurie; Pötzschke, Steffen; Reimer, David; Salamońska, Justyna; Savage, Mike; Jensen, Janne Solgaard; Varela, Albert

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“…Simple descriptive statistics cannot of course explain the reasons that have led to this situation, and that are certainly related to the political and territorial construct of each state. These results are in line with the work carried out in the EUCROSS project, which states that: ‘New Member States (NMS) have lower transnationalism 2 indices compared to Western and Northern countries of the EU, consistently with the existing hierarchy of GDP’ (Recchi et al, 2014: 60). It is also striking to note that the border regions of Geneva, Luxembourg and Basel, which are the most open to cross-border flows in Europe (Decoville et al, 2015), show a limited level of mutual social trust, at least lower than we could expect considering the very important intensity of cross-border interactions.…”

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Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

Decoville

Durand

2018

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Since its creation, the European Union seems to be guided by the idea that an increase in cross-border flows contributes to more European unity. Thus, emphasis has been placed for instance on lowering customs tariffs and encouraging the free movement of goods and people. However, if the opening up of borders creates new opportunities for some residents of border regions, there are others who may not benefit. For this reason, and in a context characterized by the rise of Euroscepticism, it seems crucial to take a more critical look at actual cross-border integration and to unravel its concrete consequences for the people who live in border regions. This paper aims to do so by focusing on two aspects of this process: the functional dimension, through the number of cross-border activities, and the perceptions border residents have of their neighbours, through the level of mutual social trust. The EUROBAROMETER 422 survey is used in order to produce statistical analyses and maps. This enables us to offer a new image of European cross-border integration and to draw the following conclusions. Firstly, cross-border flows are not uniform and vary greatly from one cross-border area to another. Secondly, cross-border regions in which the intensity of flows between neighbouring regions is high do not necessarily show a high level of mutual social trust between borderland populations. Thirdly, there is not always reciprocity with regard to the mutual social trust that people have towards their neighbours within cross-border areas.

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Section: How Practices and Perceptions Reveal The Heterogeneity Of Crsupporting

confidence: 87%

“… 2. Transnationalism is defined by the authors as ‘a web of networks and practices connecting paired societies across borders is a social construction by specific mechanisms related, mainly, to mobility or migration and expressions of social choices or values’(Recchi et al, 2014: 60). …”

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Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

Decoville

Durand

2018

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…We have also suggested that the overweening focus in EU studies on a thinly sociological notion of 'European identity' has not helped political scientists get to grips with this question. Rather, we suggest the sociology of the European Union ought to focus on extending empirical approaches documenting and mapping horizontal or everyday Europeanisation (i.e., Heidenreich et al, 2019;Recchi et al, 2019) in order to better understand the corrosive paradox identified in this article. Comparative studies of Euroscepticism and populism (i.e., de Vries, 2018;Vachudova, 2021), have identified many political reasons why the European Union is at risk from political hostility to further transnational integration.…”

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“…On this score, their solid cosmopolitanism in terms of European normative values closely matches others, except where the EU is politically invoked in questioning. When we then turn to the high degree of internationalisation of these countries in terms of social transnationalism, we note, for both economic and geographical reasons, that this is made up of a high degree of what we call 'everyday Europeanisation' of these societies (Recchi et al, 2019;Delhey et al, 2014). When this Europeanisation is measured in terms of sociological indicators-i.e., practices-to do with intra-EU cross-border flows (migration, travel, tourism, student and retirement mobility), connections (business relations, friendships, knowledge, family experience abroad) or activities (consumption of foreign products, shopping abroad, foreign language use, use of foreign media), on some of these measures the British or Danish may turn out to be more Europeanised than others.…”

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European Outliers? Rethinking Europeanisation and Euroscepticism in Britain and Denmark

Favell

Reimer

2021

European Societies

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“…Most often, this concept is used -particularly within political science, economics and European studies -to refer to the various processes through which standards and directives, originating at EU level, are implemented at and adapted to the national level, as well as their wider effects on national economic and political structures (Olsen, 2002;Radaelli, 2003). Besides this dominant understanding, the term 'Europeanization' has also been employed more recently (especially within sociological work) to denote how societies change as a result of European integration and how, in turn, this process rests on specific socio-structural foundations and is affected by the European population itself, particularly with regard to the various forms of cross-border (inter-)actions and relations that have formed over the years (Favell & Guiraudon, 2009; among others, see also Beck & Grande, 2007;Carlson, 2020;Fligstein, 2008;Recchi et al, 2019). Given these understandings of Europeanization, its connection to the notion of narrative may seem obvious.…”

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Narrative and Europeanization: bringing together two processual notions

Lueg¹,

Carlson

2020

CPE

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State of the art -subjects and range within contemporary researchNarratives and the notion of Europe are closely interconnected, both by cultural frameworks of what constitutes Europe and 'being European', and by EU-related stories crafted for political purposes. In a broader, much more paradigmatic perspective, narrative inquiry suggests that stories, as constructed and reconstructed by agents, are to be considered constituents of social interaction and phenomena, in general. Narratives construct and constrain individual and group identity (Hyvärinen et al., 2010;Loseke, 2007;Somers, 1994;Weick, 1995). What is more, they do construct phenomena agents perceive as reality (Bruner, 1991) by organizing identities into cultural or political institutions (Ewick & Silbey, 1995). Through the use of narratives and stories humans create a sense of meaning and purpose between fragmented events and experiences. Experiences are meaningful parts of shaping humans' stories about themselves (Johansen, 2012;McAdams, 1996) with regard to the social context they relate to. In exactly this sense, narratives contribute to the construction of 'Europe' and its political representation, the European Union (EU), as meaningful entities, and they appear in various forms in relation to the process of European integration, thereby shaping and permeating countless dimensions of social life (for an overview of European narratives and counter-narratives cf. Bârğaoanu et al., 2017). This has been clearly demonstrated by an abundance of research literature coming from scientific disciplines such as anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, law, literary studies, political science and sociology (although the latter, we would argue, to date plays a somewhat minor role in this field). Thus, corresponding narratives have been crafted and construed, passed on and modified by various intellectuals, writers, artists, scholars and politicians (Chenal & Snelders, 2012;Dittmer, 2014;Forchtner & Kølvraa, 2012;Petrović, 2017) as well as by newspapers (Rovisco, 2010). Sometimes, this occurs in a professionally fabricated manner as in the case of the European Commission's attempt to foster a 'new narrative for Europe' (

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Everyday Europe

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Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

European Outliers? Rethinking Europeanisation and Euroscepticism in Britain and Denmark

Narrative and Europeanization: bringing together two processual notions

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