Towards a Practice Turn in EU Studies: The Everyday of European Integration
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Towards a Practice Turn in EU Studies : The Everyday of European Integration. / Adler-Nissen, Rebecca.
In: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54, No. 1, 6, 2016, p. 87-103.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a Practice Turn in EU Studies
T2 - The Everyday of European Integration
AU - Adler-Nissen, Rebecca
N1 - JCMS Special Issue 2016: Another Theory is Possible: Dissident Voices in Theorising Europe. Guest Editors: Ian Manners and Richard Whitman
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article explores how practice theory can be recruited for the study of European integration. New generations of EU researchers are fascinated by the prospect of leaving the armchair and studying the people and artefacts that make the EU on an everyday level. This article surveys key practice-oriented, anthropological and micro-sociological studies of the EU and European integration and shows how their findings challenge more traditional understandings of the dynamics of European integration. Moving beyond a stock-taking, the article distinguishes between ‘order- ing’ and ‘disordering’ practices and explores the potential of a practice turn in EU studies for both theory (overcoming dualism, replacing substantialism with processualism and rethinking power) and methods (including unstructured interviews, fieldwork and participant observation). A practice turn will force us to rethink core assumptions about the EU and allow us to grasp otherwise uncharted performances and social activities that are crucial for European integration.
AB - This article explores how practice theory can be recruited for the study of European integration. New generations of EU researchers are fascinated by the prospect of leaving the armchair and studying the people and artefacts that make the EU on an everyday level. This article surveys key practice-oriented, anthropological and micro-sociological studies of the EU and European integration and shows how their findings challenge more traditional understandings of the dynamics of European integration. Moving beyond a stock-taking, the article distinguishes between ‘order- ing’ and ‘disordering’ practices and explores the potential of a practice turn in EU studies for both theory (overcoming dualism, replacing substantialism with processualism and rethinking power) and methods (including unstructured interviews, fieldwork and participant observation). A practice turn will force us to rethink core assumptions about the EU and allow us to grasp otherwise uncharted performances and social activities that are crucial for European integration.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - EU
KW - European studies
KW - EU studies
KW - Practice theory
KW - Everyday life
KW - Anthropology
KW - sociology
KW - fieldwork
KW - participant observation
KW - methodology
KW - methods and methodology
KW - anthropology
KW - European integration theory
KW - everyday
KW - micro-sociology
KW - participant observation
KW - practice theory
M3 - Journal article
VL - 54
SP - 87
EP - 103
JO - Journal of Common Market Studies
JF - Journal of Common Market Studies
SN - 0021-9886
IS - 1
M1 - 6
ER -
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