Naslov
Europe as an "Empty Signifier": A Radical Constructivist Perspective

Autori
Špehar, Hrvoje ; Jerbić, Vedran

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Globalization of Culture. European and Global Networks

Urednik/ci
Jerbić, Vedran ; Milardović, Anđelko ; Špehar, Hrvoje

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2016

Raspon stranica
22-43

ISBN
978-953-6457-94-6

Ključne riječi
Europeanization ; European Identity ; EU Polity ; Social Constructivism

Sažetak
In this paper we wanted to occupy a radical constructivist perspective in order to think about the European identity and the process of Europeanization. We started by distinguishing between conventional and radical constructivism - the former relying on scientific realism and positivism in treating concepts such as ideas, identities, cultural match… as variables that can be made compatible with the “objective” science of observation, while the latter renounces any kind of “metaphysical realism” in order to deal with an epistemological reflexivity of its own research field and the conditions of possibility of intuitive understandings that conventionalists are not keen to challenge. The difference could also be delineate as whether it is possible to grasp international reality independently of our own apparatus of understanding, or does our own position (as academies) intervenes in the process of its construction.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Sociologija

POVEZANOST RADA