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Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union

Fields, Intellectuals and Politicians

By: Niilo Kauppi

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Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union

Fields, Intellectuals and Politicians

By: Niilo Kauppi

This book argues that contemporary European politics creates new forms of transnational power that challenge the traditional parameters of the nation-state. Kauppi identifies and critically explores the evolving dynamics between national and transnational spaces, groups and knowledge, and suggests that European public policies and transnational institutions like the European Parliament create new spaces, types of knowledge and novel political practices. Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union is structured around three parts. The first focuses on evolving transnational fields. The second explores the changing role of academics and universities. The third section engages with the works of Pierre Bourdieu on politics and the media. The issues discussed throughout the book revolve around the challenges to the nation-state and of knowledge production that is tied to it. This book will be an invaluable resource to academics and researchers interested in European politics, European Union studies and political sociology.

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3319710028

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Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union

Fields, Intellectuals and Politicians

By: Niilo Kauppi

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French Intellectual Nobility

Institutional and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartrian Era

By: Niilo Kauppi

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French Intellectual Nobility

Institutional and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartrian Era

By: Niilo Kauppi

French thinkers like Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, A. J. Greimas, Michel Foucault, and Claude Levi-Strauss created the "structuralist" and "poststructuralist" movements. They succeeded Sartrian existentialism and formed a new aristocracy of culture. French Intellectual Nobility is the first study to examine the conditions for the creation of these movements. Through case studies in cultural history, sociology, semiology, and literature, the book discusses the processes that enabled the French intellectual nobility to reinvent itself. By developing a historical and comparative approach, Kauppi analyzes the challenges that an intellectual generation faced, and he contributes to a context-sensitive analysis of culture and power.

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SUNY Press

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0791431444

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Knowledge Alchemy

Models and Agency in Global Knowledge Governance

By: Tero Erkkilä,Meng-Hsuan Chou,Niilo Kauppi

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Knowledge Alchemy

Models and Agency in Global Knowledge Governance

By: Tero Erkkilä,Meng-Hsuan Chou,Niilo Kauppi

This book introduces the concept of ‘knowledge alchemy’ to capture the generic process of transforming mundane practices and policies of governance into competitive ones following imagined global gold standards. Using examples from North America, Europe and Asia, it explores how knowledge alchemy increasingly informs national and institutional policies and practices on economic performance, higher education, research and innovation. The book examines how governments around the world have embraced global models of world-class university, human capital and talent competition as essential in ensuring national competitiveness. Through its analysis, the book shows how this strongly future-oriented and anticipatory knowledge governance is steered by a surge of global classifications, rankings and indicators, resulting in numerous comparisons of various domains that today form more constraining global policy scripts.

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Policy Press

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1529214416

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Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union

By: Niilo Kauppi

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Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union

By: Niilo Kauppi

In this book Kauppi develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French and Finnish empirical cases, the political practices that maintain the Union's 'democratic deficit'. Kauppi conceptualises the European Union as both an arena for political contention and a nascent political order. In this evolving, multi-levelled European political field, individuals and groups construct material and symbolic structures of political power, grounded in a variety of social resources such as nationality, culture, and gender. The author shows how the dominance of both executive political resources and domestic political cultures has prevented the development of European democracy. Supranational executive networks have become more autonomous, reinforcing the dominance of the resources they control. At the same time, national political cultures condition the political status of elected institutions such as the European parliament. The book is particularly suited for undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of European Politics, European Union Studies and International Relations.

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Manchester University Press

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1526130335

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The Politics of Embodiment

Habits, Power, and Pierre Bourdieu's Theory

By: Niilo Kauppi

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The Politics of Embodiment

Habits, Power, and Pierre Bourdieu's Theory

By: Niilo Kauppi

At times controversial, always thought-provoking, Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential modern social and cultural theorists. In this in-depth, multidisciplinary analysis of the Bourdieusian concept of <I>habitus, the embodied social and cultural environment, Niilo Kauppi initiates a dialogue between Pierre Bourdieu's theory and historical (Lucien Febvre), philosophical (Aristotle and C.S. Peirce), and sociological (Emile Durkheim and Norbert Elias) approaches to habits and subjectivity. Through terms such as action, arbitrariness, homology, and structure, the author examines the complex affinities between Pierre Bourdieu's ideas on embodiment and traditions in anthropology (Claude Levi-Strauss), linguistics (Ferdinand de Saussure), literature (Honore de Balzac), philosophy (Gaston Bachelard), and psychology (Lev Vygotsky). Niilo Kauppi offers a constructive basis for a re-evaluation of <I>habitus, -regularity without rules, intentionality without intentions, rationality without calculation, physically lodged in the individual but thoroughly social in character.-

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Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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3631358628

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Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union

By: Niilo Kauppi

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Radicalism in French Culture

A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s

By: Niilo Kauppi

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Radicalism in French Culture

A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s

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An invisible pattern draws together most studies dealing with French cultural radicalism in the 1960s with intellectual creation reduced to individual creation and the role of semiotic and social factors that influence intellectual innovation minimized. Sociological approaches often see a more or less external link between social location and intellectual production but, because of their structural approach, they are incapable of taking into account unique historical circumstances, the crucial role of personal impulses, and more importantly the semiotic logic of ideas as conditions of innovative thinking. This ground-breaking book will further an internal sociological analysis of ideas and styles of thought. It will show that the defining but largely neglected feature of what has become "French theory" was a collective mind and style of thought, an explosive but fragile mixture of scientific and political radicalism that rather quickly watered down to academic orthodoxy. For some time, radical intellectuals succeeded in producing ideas that were perfectly in tune with the demands of the consumers, mostly the young university audience. Ideas were used as part of radical posture that was set in opposition to the establishment and "those in power". Ideas could not be too empirical or verifiable, and they had to shock. It is not surprising that a slew of new sciences and concepts were invented to indicate this radical posture. The central argument of this study is that ideas become "power-ideas" only if they succeed in uniting individual and collective psychic investment in powerful social networks with significant institutional and political backing. These conditions were met in the French context for a certain specific period of time. From roughly the mid-1960s to the beginning of the 1970s, radical intellectuals such as Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva developed a host of new ideas, concepts and theories, a number of which have subsequently been labelled as French theory.

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Routledge

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1317071794

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French Intellectual Nobility

Institutional and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartrian Era

By: Niilo Kauppi

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Institutional and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartrian Era

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Knowledge Alchemy

Models and Agency in Global Knowledge Governance

By: Tero Erkkilä,Meng-Hsuan Chou,Niilo Kauppi

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Models and Agency in Global Knowledge Governance

By: Tero Erkkilä,Meng-Hsuan Chou,Niilo Kauppi

This book introduces the concept of 'knowledge alchemy' to capture the generic process of transforming mundane practices and policies of governance into competitive ones following imagined global gold standards. Using examples from North America, Europe and Asia, it explores how knowledge alchemy increasingly informs national and institutional policies and practices on economic performance, higher education, research and innovation. The book examines how governments around the world have embraced global models of world-class university, human capital and talent competition as essential in ensuring national competitiveness. Through its analysis, the book shows how this strongly future-oriented and anticipatory knowledge governance is steered by a surge of global classifications, rankings and indicators, resulting in numerous comparisons of various domains that today form more constraining global policy scripts.

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1529214408

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The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees

By: Henry F. Carey

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The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees

By: Henry F. Carey

This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the peace, but produced episodes of crisis from overstretching jurisdictions, thematically and geographically. Polarization between nationalist and integrative forces has displaced the idealistic aspirations of prior decades to build the rule of law and deter violence. Academics and policy makers will learn from the various legal and political efforts to integrate supranational and inter-governmental agencies with national political systems.

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Lexington Books

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1498547737

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Book's by Niilo Kauppi

Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union

Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union

Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union

Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union

French Intellectual Nobility

French Intellectual Nobility

Knowledge Alchemy

Knowledge Alchemy

Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union

Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union

The Politics of Embodiment

The Politics of Embodiment

Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union

Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union

Radicalism in French Culture

Radicalism in French Culture

French Intellectual Nobility

French Intellectual Nobility

Knowledge Alchemy

Knowledge Alchemy

The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees

The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees

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