Kurs: Sociology of European Integration, Thema: 10. Social movements and critical Europeanist discourses

Section outline

Recommended reading

Doerr, N. (2010) Politicizing precarity, Producing Visual Dialogues on Migration: Transnational Public Spaces in Social Movements. Forum: Qualitative Social Research 11(2).

Haug, C. (2008) Public spheres within movements: challenging the (re)search for a European public sphere. RECON working paper 2008/02.

Scholl, C. (2013). Europe as contagious space: Cross-border diffusion through EuroMayday and climate justice movements. In: Cox, R. and C. Flesher Fominaya (Eds.) Understanding European Movements: New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest. London: Routledge: 127-42.
- Select activity Lecture 10 slides and audio
  
  Lecture 10 slides and audio Datei
  
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- Select activity Seminar assignment 4: images of Europe from a civil society perspective
  
  Seminar assignment 4: images of Europe from a civil society perspective Aufgabe
  
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  European civil society organisations’ response to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
  Numerous civil society groups and organisations have raised concerns and issued appeals for action in relation to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
  1. How do their appeals position the EU institutions? (e.g. as allies or opponents, competent or incompetent, central or peripheral actors in the response)
  
  2.Choose 2 or 3 images from the organisations’ communiqués. What messages do they communicate about Europe, European integration, European cizitenship or European solidarity at this moment of crisis?
  
  You could start from this compilation of responses collated by Social Platform (a network of European civil society organisations working in the social sector).
  
  Format: 500-1000 word essay illustrated with screenshots of images.
  
  Deadline: Wednesday 29 April, 2pm.