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European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis

Manners, Ian LU orcid (2021) p.159-182
Abstract
The most common way of theorising the European Union’s crises is to see them as, at best, a run of ‘bad luck’, or at worst as ‘multiple challenges’. This chapter brings two very different perspectives to the study of the European Union (EU) and its crises by theorising European (dis)integration using the Critical Social Theory (CST) of ‘European communion’ (Manners, 2013a) within the context of ‘planetary organic crisis’ (Gill and Benatar, 2020). These perspectives mark a radical break from ‘classical integration theories’ in using CST; from viewing the crises as distinct from each other; and from seeing the crises as particular to the EU. The rest of this section sets out the main arguments for a European communion theory of planetary... (More)
The most common way of theorising the European Union’s crises is to see them as, at best, a run of ‘bad luck’, or at worst as ‘multiple challenges’. This chapter brings two very different perspectives to the study of the European Union (EU) and its crises by theorising European (dis)integration using the Critical Social Theory (CST) of ‘European communion’ (Manners, 2013a) within the context of ‘planetary organic crisis’ (Gill and Benatar, 2020). These perspectives mark a radical break from ‘classical integration theories’ in using CST; from viewing the crises as distinct from each other; and from seeing the crises as particular to the EU. The rest of this section sets out the main arguments for a European communion theory of planetary organic crisis. The following five sections focus on European communion in the context of the neoliberal economic, demographic social, climatic ecological, proxy conflict, and ethno-nationalist political crises of the 21st century. The final section concludes on making sense of European communion and planetary organic crisis. (Less)
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subject
keywords
European Union, European communion, European integration, planetary organic crisis, planetary politics
host publication
Theorising the Crises of the European Union
editor
Brack, Nathalie and Gürkan, Seda
pages
24 pages
publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9781003001423
9780367431402
9780367431266
DOI
10.4324/9781003001423
project
Planetary Politics
Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis
language
English
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yes
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91832e36-da77-45f3-a3fd-7bc47a5a5ecc
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2021-02-11 19:44:12
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  author       = {{Manners, Ian}},
  booktitle    = {{Theorising the Crises of the European Union}},
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  pages        = {{159--182}},
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  title        = {{European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/91282416/Ian_Manners_2021_European_Communion_and_Planetary_Organic_Crisis_word_version.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.4324/9781003001423}},
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