Imagining Europe

This book provides an extensive analysis and discussion of the transnational mobilization of citizens and youth, alongside the production of creative, imaginative, and constructive solutions to the European crisis. The volume provides a variety of interdisciplinary analyses, as well as a series of perspectives on populism that have not been addressed extensively, including an examination of left-wing populism, the constituent power dimension of populism, and transnational manifestations of populism, contributing to debates on political science, political sociology, social movements studies, and political and constitutional theory.

Focuses on resistance and protest movements which challenge the existing (EU) crisis policies Looks at leftwing movements with populist characteristics as well as right wing movements Draws attention to constituent politics and constitutional discourses

Autorentext

Paul Blokker is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy and Research Coordinator at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Imagining Europe. Transnational contestation and civic populism: Paul Blokker- Section 1: Transnational mobilization.- 2. Left-wing social movements between strong European identities and the challenges of transnational activism. The Case of DiEM25: Ondej Císa and Manès Weisskircher.- 3. Alter- not pro-European: The question of Europe in transnational activist networks: Antje Scharenberg.- 4. European space in the Euroalternativist discourse: detachment, utopia, strategy, and a life story: Yuliya Moskvina.- Section 2: Transnational left populism.- 5. Transnational Populism and the European Union: An Uneasy Alliance? The Case of DiEM25: Panos Panayotu.- 6. Transnational populism: the populist challenge from the Left?: Patricia Chiantera.- 7. Left Populism and 'Another Europe': Europeanization, International Sovereigntism and Transnationalism: Óscar García Agustín.- 8. Winds of Change, or Fighting the Windmills: Exploring the Economic Visions of the Pan-European Movement DiEM25: Kristián rám.- Section 3: Transnational constituent power and constitutionalism.- 9. European constitutional politics and the making of collective self-images.- 10. Technocracy and populism as a consequence of political de-constitutionalization: Pablo Holmes.- 11. Transnational Populism in Context: The UN, the EU, and Beyond: Kolja Möller.- 12. The Constitutional Deficit, Constituent Activism and the (Conference on the) Future of Europe: Paul Blokker.