Global seminar: Governance and European civil society
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Book launch
Governance and European Civil Society: Governmentality, Discourse and NGOs
Routledge, 2014
Acar Kutay
Senior Researcher
Uni Rokkan Centre
Kutay’s book provides a critical analysis of the European Union’s approach to ‘governance’, focusing on the way in which civil society is incorporated within the EU decision-making process and arguing that it is not conducive to the democratisation of EU governance.
Using a governmentality approach, Kutay demonstrates that civic actors are not incorporated into EU decision-making processes as they are; rather, they are formed, manipulated and guided by political programming. The author explains how this acts to prescribe and construct particular types of subjectivities, thereby limiting and constraining the types of participation that might emerge as part of European civil society and the process of political participation.
Discussant: Lars Blichner, Associate Professor, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, UiB
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