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{"title":"Not Quite Right: Representations of Eastern Europeans in ECJ Discourse.","authors":"Dagmar Rita Myslinska","doi":"10.1007/s10767-020-09368-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09368-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the increasing responsiveness of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the 'ECJ') jurisprudence to western Member States' concerns regarding Central and Eastern European ('CEE') nationals' mobility has garnered academic attention, ECJ <i>discourse</i> has not been scrutinised for how it approaches the CEE region or CEE movers. Applying postcolonial theory, this article seeks to fill this gap and to explore whether there are any indications that ECJ discourse is in line with the historical western-centric inferiorisation of the CEE region. A critical discourse analysis of a set of ECJ judgments and corresponding Advocate General opinions pertaining to CEE nationals illustrates not only how the ECJ adopts numerous discursive strategies to maintain its authority, but also how it tends to prioritise values of the western Member States, while overlooking interests of CEE movers. Its one-sided approach is further reinforced by referring to irrelevant facts and negative assumptions to create an image of CEE nationals as socially and economically inferior to westerners, as not belonging to the proper EU polity and as not quite deserving of EU law's protections. By silencing CEE nationals' voices, while disregarding the background of east/west socio-economic and political power differentials and precariousness experienced by many CEE workers in the west, such racialising discourse normalises ethnicity- and class-based stereotypes. These findings also help to contextualise both EU and western policies targeting CEE movers and evidence of their unequal outcomes in the west, and are in line with today's nuanced expressions of racisms. By illustrating the ECJ's role in addressing values pertinent to mobile CEE individuals, this study facilitates a fuller appreciation of the ECJ's power in shaping and reflecting western-centric EU identity and policies. Engaging with such issues will not only allow us to better appreciate-and question-the ECJ's legitimacy, but might also facilitate a better understanding of power dynamics within the EU. This study also makes significant theoretical and methodological contributions. It expands (and complicates) the application of postcolonial theory to contemporary intra-EU processes, while illustrating the usefulness of applying critical discourse analysis to exploring differentiation, exclusion, subordination and power within legal language.</p>","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"34 3","pages":"271-307"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-020-09368-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38297207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Moroccan City Festivals, Cultural Diplomacy and Urban Political Agency.","authors":"Nick Dines","doi":"10.1007/s10767-020-09390-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09390-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over the last two decades, cultural festivals have been established and consolidated in cities across Morocco. Their proliferation has coincided with the reign of Mohammed VI, well known as an enthusiastic and extremely wealthy patron of the arts, and the concomitant state-controlled democratization of Moroccan politics and society. Drawing on two examples-the Marrakech International Film Festival and the Mawazine music festival in Rabat-this article interrogates the ways in which festivals and the urban scale combine to function as vehicles for cultural diplomacy. Contra the common tendency in recent policy debates that perceive the city (with or without its administration) as an active agent in translocal cultural relations, I argue for a more nuanced perspective that understands the urban festival as a diplomatic platform through which the cultural politics of the state are rescaled and where a range of actors contest ideas about the local, national and global trajectories of society and cultural life.</p>","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"34 4","pages":"471-485"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-020-09390-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38504259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public Epistemologies and Intellectual Interventions in Contemporary Italy.","authors":"Federico Brandmayr","doi":"10.1007/s10767-019-09346-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-019-09346-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Building on recent work in the sociology of intellectual interventions, the study of cultural boundaries of science, and the role of ideas in politics, the article develops a theory of public epistemologies as argumentative tools people use to support or oppose political positions. Two prominent public epistemologies that have recently crystallized in Italian politics are taken as illustrations, with special attention paid to the role of two academics (an economist and an immunologist) turned public intellectuals. The article argues that the rise of populism in Italy has contributed to unusual alignments between political and epistemological positions, which has made questions about science and expert knowledge much more relevant in contesting and supporting political decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"34 1","pages":"47-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-019-09346-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25451364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Rituals of Pain: The Socio-Symbolic Meaning of Violence in Gang Initiations","authors":"J. Murer, Tilman Schwarze","doi":"10.1007/s10767-020-09392-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09392-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"35 1","pages":"95 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-020-09392-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52273238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Putting the City on the World Art Map: Star Curators and Nation Branding","authors":"Jérémie Molho","doi":"10.1007/s10767-020-09389-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09389-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"34 1","pages":"455 - 470"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-020-09389-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47555071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Historical Sociology of the New Cultural Diplomacy","authors":"Robin S. Brown","doi":"10.1007/s10767-020-09386-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09386-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"34 1","pages":"403 - 418"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-020-09386-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41627832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Awkwardness to Action Christian Voluntarism in Denmark Beyond the Sector Model of Civil Society","authors":"Anders Sevelsted","doi":"10.1007/s10767-020-09378-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09378-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"34 1","pages":"191 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-020-09378-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52273219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Imagined Globe: Remapping the World Through Public Diplomacy at the Asia Society","authors":"Sarah E. K. Smith, P. Levitt, Rebecca Selch","doi":"10.1007/s10767-020-09387-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09387-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"34 1","pages":"419 - 435"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-020-09387-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41712567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to this Special Issue Cultural Diplomacy: What Role for Cities and Civil Society Actors?","authors":"Y. Isar, A. Triandafyllidou","doi":"10.1007/s10767-020-09385-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09385-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"34 1","pages":"393 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-020-09385-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45882075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Civil Society, Populism and Liberalism","authors":"T. Osborne","doi":"10.1007/s10767-020-09377-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09377-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45635,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics Culture and Society","volume":"34 1","pages":"175 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10767-020-09377-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47531518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}