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The Politics of Everyday Europe - Constructing Authority in the European Union (Paperback)
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The Politics of Everyday Europe - Constructing Authority in the European Union (Paperback)
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How do political authorities build support for themselves and their
rule? Doing so is key to accruing power, but it can be a
complicated affair. The European Union, as a novel political
entity, faces a particularly difficult set of challenges. The
Politics of Everyday Europe argues that the legitimation of EU
authority rests in part on a transformation in the symbols and
practices of everyday life in Europe. The Single Market and the
Euro, the legal category of European Citizen and policies promoting
the free movement of people, EU public architecture, arts and
popular entertainment, and EU diplomacy and foreign policy all
generate symbols and practices that change peoples' day-to-day
experiences naturalizing European governance.The modern
nation-state has long used similar strategies of nationalism and
'imagined communities' to legitimize its political power. But the
EU's cultural infrastructure is unique, as it navigates European
national identities with a particularly banality, trying to make
the EU seem complementary to, not in competition with, the
nation-states. While this cultural legitimation has successfully
underpinned the EU's surprising political development, Europe today
is more often met with indifference by its citizens rather than
affection. As economic and political crises have stretched European
social solidarity to the breaking point, this book offers a clear
theoretical framework for understanding how everyday culture
matters fundamentally in the political life of the EU, and how the
construction of meaning can be a potent power resource-albeit one
open to contestation and subversion by the very citizens it calls
into being.
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