TY - JOUR
T1 - The Europeanization of regions as ‘spaces for politics’
T2 - A research agenda
AU - Carter, Catriona
AU - Pasquier, Romain
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Through its collective regulation, the European Union (EU) has institutionalized as a critical space for public action. Yet, frequently regions are considered ‘objects’ of EU politics, rather than ‘subjects’ of its daily government. Moving away from dominant narratives on the relationship between the ‘region’ and the ‘EU’, we propose a new research agenda which draws on sociological applications of the Europeanization literature and re-frames the problematic towards studying regions as ‘spaces for EU politics’. Significantly, this approach identifies actor political usages of social representations of ‘territory’ as critical in explaining regional actors’ transformation from ‘objects’ to ‘subjects’ of EU government.
AB - Through its collective regulation, the European Union (EU) has institutionalized as a critical space for public action. Yet, frequently regions are considered ‘objects’ of EU politics, rather than ‘subjects’ of its daily government. Moving away from dominant narratives on the relationship between the ‘region’ and the ‘EU’, we propose a new research agenda which draws on sociological applications of the Europeanization literature and re-frames the problematic towards studying regions as ‘spaces for EU politics’. Significantly, this approach identifies actor political usages of social representations of ‘territory’ as critical in explaining regional actors’ transformation from ‘objects’ to ‘subjects’ of EU government.
U2 - 10.1080/13597566.2010.484565
DO - 10.1080/13597566.2010.484565
M3 - Article
SN - 1359-7566
VL - 20
SP - 295
EP - 314
JO - Regional & Federal Studies
JF - Regional & Federal Studies
IS - 3
ER -