A Sociology of Knowledge of
European Integration
This book addresses the important but understudied question of how social scientific knowledge is entangled in the process of European integration. More specifically, it provides the first systematic introduction to a sociology of knowledge approach to European integration and demonstrates the value of such an approach through empirical illustrations.
Drawing on new research in the intersection of sociology of knowledge and political sociology, the book is the first to analyse the entanglement of social scientific knowledge and the development of the EU. The contributors provide the first systematic mapping of the relations between social scientific knowledge and particular aspects of European integration such as the Euro and monetary governance, constitution- and treaty-negotiation, education policy, enlargement and foreign policy. The book imports key ideas from the sociology of knowledge, sociology of science and political sociology to cast new light on the field of EU studies and its relation to the EU polity. The result is a fresh account of European integration, shaped in often surprising ways by relatively small groups of people and their particular ideas about economy, law, culture and politics.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.
Rebecca Adler-Nissen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focuses on international political sociology, diplomacy, sovereignty, security, and European integration. She is the author of Opting Out of the European Union: Diplomacy, Sovereignty and European Integration (2014) and editor of Bourdieu in International Relations (2012).
Kristoffer Kropp is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is interested in the relations between political institutions and social scientific knowledge production. He is the author of A Historical Account of Danish Sociology (2015, forthcoming).
Journal of European Integration Special Issues
Series editors:
Thomas Christiansen, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Simon Duke, European Institute of Public Administration, Netherlands
The Journal of European Integration book series is designed to make our Special Issues accessible to a wider audience. All of the themes covered by our Special Issues and the series are carefully selected with regard to the topicality of the questions addressed in the individual volumes, as well as to the quality of the contributions. The result is a series of books that are sufficiently short to appeal to the curious reader, but that also offer ample depth of analysis to appeal to the more specialist reader, with contributions from leading academics.
A Sociology of Knowledge of European Integration
The social sciences in the making of Europe
Edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Kristoffer Kropp
Responses to the Arabellions
The EU in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Tanja Brzel, Assem Dandashly and Thomas Risse
Representation and Democracy in the EU
Does one come at the expense of the other?
Edited by Richard Bellamy and Sandra Krger
Coping with Crisis: Europes Challenges and Strategies
Edited by Jale Tosun, Anne Wetzel and Galina Zapyanova
Globalization and EU Competition Policy
Edited by Umut Aydin and Kenneth Thomas
Redefining European Economic Governance
Edited by Michele Chang, Georg Menz and Mitchell P. Smith
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