Toward a reflexive political sociology of the European Union: fields, intellectuals and politiciand
In: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology Ser
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Key Features of the Structural Constructivist Approach -- On Political Action -- Bibliography -- Part I: The Politics of Transnational Integration -- 1: Toward a Sociology of EU Politics -- Power and Resources -- A Sociology of EU Politics -- An Analysis of Political Practices in the European Parliament -- In Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2: Exploring the Political Ontology of European Integration -- Ontology -- An Exclusive Ontological Framework -- An Inclusive Ontological Framework -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3: Analyzing Integration -- Problems with Integration in IR and European Studies -- Integration in Bourdieu's Work -- Countering European Official Rhetoric -- Rethinking the European Parliament -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 4: Constructing Transnational Fields -- Transnationalism -- Field Analysis -- The European Parliament as a Transnational Field -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5: Political Legitimation and European Public Spaces: Communication as Practice and Resource -- Structures of European Public Spaces -- Communicating Europe: Toward a 'Policy of the European Public Space'? -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 6: Processes of Differentiation of Political Power in the EU -- The Difficulty of Talking About the EU -- The Differentiation and Stratification of the European Parliament as an Example -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Reflexive Action and Knowledge Production -- 7: Intellectual Power in Europe -- Two Intellectual Cultures -- European Public Spheres -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 8: European Academic Identity -- Tensions in French Academe -- Primary and Secondary Worlds -- Mobility and Europe as Unfinished Adventures -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 9: European Political Science and Global Knowledge -- University Ranking as Symbolic Machine-Tool