Mini-symposium on peripherisation in the European Union at the CES conference
The contributions to the symposium seek to highlight peripherisation and peripherality as a backgrounded disposition of current struggles over sovereignty.
Peripheriality: constructing socio-spatial hierarchies within and beyond Europe. Authors‘ workshop
The past decades have brought an increase in spatially connoted disparities and inequalities both within and between European societies, intertwined with changes within the European Union (EU) and the global constellation. The workshop ‘Peripheriality: constructing socio-spatial hierarchies within and beyond Europe’ invites contributions that focus on the construction of centrality and peripheriality or of central and peripheral Selves in discourses and (material) practices.
Mobilising for alternatives to EU austerity: SYRIZA’s narrative of the European financial and economic crisis
Vortrag von Amelie Kutter und Gesine Lenkewitz auf der 7. CADAAD Konferenz
The Eurozone crisis brought about a new form of party political opposition in Europe that is deeply critical of the current institutional setting of the EU and the EU’s approach to crisis management while, at the same time, generally supporting the European project. This paper investigates discourse practices employed by such ‘euroalternativist opposition’ (Fitzgibbon 2013), drawing on the example of statements (press releases, speeches and interviews) on EU crisis management addressed to international audiences by SYRIZA between the years 2009-2014.
European peripheries: transdisciplinary perspectives
International workshop organised by Amelie Kutter and the Reconfigurations project at the Viadrina Institute of European Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). The workshop investigates current trends of periphery-building in the European context. Contributions from political economy, sociology, political science, history, cultural and discourse studies provide conceptual orientation and empirical depth to peripheries as an emerging transdisciplinary research agenda.
Europäische Peripherien: die Perspektive einer diskursiven politischen Ökonomie
Vortrag von Amelie Kutter im Kolloquium des Instituts für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Tübingen, 2. November 2016.
Europäische Peripherien: Grenzziehung aus der Perspektive einer diskursiven politischen Ökonomie
Vortrag von Amelie Kutter auf dem Workshop ‚Komplexe Grenzen: Dimensionen, Dynamiken, Technologien‘ veranstaltet von der Arbeitsgruppe ‚Grenztheorien‘ an der Europa-Universität Viadrina, 3.-4. November 2016.
Forschungsprojekt: Reconfigurations of centre and periphery in the European Union
Das Projekt ‚Reconfigurations of centre and periphery in the European Union: a discursive political study‘ untersucht, wie das Verhältnis von Zentrum und Peripherie in der EU seit der Krise neu definiert wird. Es wird von der Europäischen Kommission finanziert und von Amelie Kutter an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) geleitet.
Forschungsprojekt: Another legitimation crisis (2013-2014)
The Eurozone crisis and its management called into question the EU’s decision-making capacity and cast doubt on its responsiveness and accountability towards various groups’ and members’ demands. It also ruined the prospects for catch-up that poorer members of the European Union linked to membership and severely damaged the EU’s rationale of cohesion. The project investigates discursive struggles over the adequate management of the Eurozone crisis with regard to how they address the project of developmental catch-up and, thereby, redefine the centre and periphery. It is directed by Amelie Kutter at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).