Weekly Programme

1. Introduction: how do we study Europe sociologically?

2. Europe as institutional field versus Europe as social space and process

3. Multiple sociologies of European integration: a. field theory, b. sociology of knowledge, c. social movement theory, d. communication and discourse studies, e. sociology of critique

4. Grammars of justification: apologetic and critical discourses on Europe

5. Hierarchy, market or network: what kind of governance regime(s) is the European Union?

6. The integration of a European public sphere

7. Mobilising Europe’s civic resources for problem-solving, re-legitimisation and autonomy

8. Public participation in European integration

9. Case study 1: enrolling statistics, measures and surveys in European integration

10. Case study 2: Brexit

11. Case study 3: grassroots collective action and radical European utopias