By Maria Kousis, Klaus Eder (auth.), Klaus Eder, Maria Kousis (eds.)
`Europe is usually credited with a `polis,' yet now not a `demos'. Political integration and financial globalisation can't slash neighborhood identification and social stories. This interesting choice of nationwide case experiences exhibits why there'll continuously be an area `demos' positioned in ecology, economic climate, and society. yet there'll by no means be a transnational `demos', accurately simply because locality is the foundation for significant sustainability. lengthy may perhaps it triumph.' Tim O'Riordan, CSERGE,University of East Anglia
'The publication deals a fresh standpoint at the range of Europe and even as, at the interdependence of the regulations, economies, and societies of eu international locations. Going past the dichotomies of `good and undesirable' and `leaders and laggards' in environmental issues, the authors give a contribution to another figuring out of the North-South divide within the means of eu integration.' Angela Liberatore, eu Commission,Directorate normal for Research
`This is a self-consciously revisionist quantity, whose findings are theoretically major, policy-relevant, and well timed. Its insistence on `bringing society again in,' its debunking of the thought of a `Mediterranean syndrome,' its emphasis on developmental `leapfrogging' ability of late-comers to grow to be leaders in contexts of past due modernity, and its systematic try to reconceptualize the politics of Europeanization could be conscientiously indexed to scholars and policy-makers eager about collective motion, Southern Europe, eu integration, and environmental politics.' P. NikiforosDiamandouros, college of Athens
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The mobilization of national discourses for the transnational regulation of the 24 It is difficult to answer the question of who dominates. The French? The Germans? The English? Or the Belgians? Since supranational legal forms force them to co-operate, one is well-advised to explain the forms of co-ordination of national publics as the unintended consequence of imposing a national style on the others. Klaus Eder 40 environment. In such transnational forms the national story lines are retold. The environment is well-suited for retelling such stories because they refer to nature and culture, the body and the mind, the good and the bad, the dangerous and the familiar, pollution and purity.
These are the contours of a new elite-made and elite-dominated order in Europe. These actors, bound together in a EU-specific institutional order, define the rules of the game for national actors. They reorganize and redistribute the symbolic capital in the field of environmental debate and politics. Elites create a social space in which the circulation of such symbolic capital is closed and tied to specific rules of access. Socializing into this elite social space means taking part in the definition and the practice of the rules of the game.
This holds for the North and the South equally, even slightly more so for the North. This has to be qualified with respect to the framing of the protest. What this difference tells us is that agrarian interests will be more inclined toward disembedded interest politics, whereas rural interests will be more inclined toward life world concerns which favor environmental attitudes. Paradoxically, this might even be fostered by observations made in a growing literature on the environmental attitudes of farmers that small farmers who are dependent on chemical agriculture rarely have alternative options for economic survival.
