Europe and the Everyday: Subjectivities, Identities and Contestations

Due to significant processes of transnationalization in the European context, a considerable relevance of potential social and political conflicts or disagreements in everyday life linked to Europe or the European Union can be observed. Consequently, the focus of this book is on the increasingly intertwined European citizens themselves and their everyday experiences with European and EU-related issues. The individual chapters provide fine-tuned perspectives on the connection of social and political European integration processes in the context of the EU and the everyday life of Europeans. Overall, the book draws attention to both how contestations over Europe and the EU figure in everyday life and on how European integration shapes individual (social and political) subjectivities and identities. This book is intended for scholars and advanced students of European Studies, Sociology and Political Science and International Relations.

Elena Glockzin is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. She studied Political Science, Sociology, and Administration and Politics of Public Institutions in Würzburg, Bologna, and Bolzano. Her research focuses on processes of subjectivation concerning political conflicts in everyday life, with a particular emphasis on potential divisions regarding European integration and identity. The empirical focus of this research is on Italy.

Stephan Stetter is Professor of International Politics and Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. His research focuses on theories of international politics in Global Modernity, primarily from a historical-sociological and socio-theoretical perspective; politics, conflicts, and society in the Middle East, with a focus on Israel and Palestine, as well as EU external relations, particularly the European Neighbourhood Policy.