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Beaudonnet, Laurie, Belot, Céline, Caune, Hélène, Houde, Anne-Marie and Pennetreau, Damien (2022) Narrating Europe : (re-)constructed and contested visions of the European project in citizens’ discourse. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies . doi:10.1111/jcms.13364 ISSN 0021-9886. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13364
Abstract
Changes in public opinion and civil society over the last decade have shown that citizens, particularly in old EU Member States, have developed more complex attitudes towards European integration. While the European project was previously generally described as a teleological depoliticized project, aiming at building peace and comforting growth, different competing visions of the European project are nowadays acknowledged and surface among the public on occasions, like referendums or treaty negotiations. While EU official narratives are documented by studies on the European institutions or the visions of leaders and parties, their empirical analysis at the citizens' level is still fragmented. Using focus group data in four countries (France, Portugal, Italy and Belgium) and three social groups (21 group interviews), we provide a comparative qualitative answer to how citizens envision European integration. Our results show that, first, official narratives do not fail to reach citizens, but they are also loosened, contested, and do not systematically produce a sense of common belonging. Second, they highlight the importance of socio-economic contexts, as well as national and personal experience in the re-appropriation of these narratives.
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social integration -- Europe, Social integration -- European Union countries, European Union -- Public opinion, Europe -- Economic integration, Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989- | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0021-9886 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 26 June 2022 | ||||||||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1111/jcms.13364 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Beaudonnet, L., Belot, C., Caune, H., Houde, A.-M., and Pennetreau, D. (2022) Narrating Europe: (Re-)constructed and Contested Visions of the European Project in Citizens' Discourse. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13364. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
| Description: | This research was conducted within RESTEP (RÉSeau Transatlantique sur l’Europe Politique), an international research network bringing together researchers from ten European and Canadian universities, led by Laurie Beaudonnet and Frédéric Mérand (Université de Montréal) and funded by the 'Jean Monnet activities' component of the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme (project 587460-EPP-1-2017-1-CA-EPPJMO-NETWORK). In addition to funding from the Jean Monnet activities framework, this research has benefited from the support of the Fonds de Recherche Société et Culture du Québec via the Research Support for New Academics Program (grand agreement 2016-NP-191505 awarded to Laurie Beaudonnet, Autre(s) Europe(s) project), and the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement 716208 awarded to Virginie Van Ingelgom, Qualidem project). |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 June 2022 | ||||||||||||
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