Spaces of Europeanisation in the Balkans

Cities, Networks and Urban Epistemic Communities
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-69643-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 138 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 379 g

Reihe: Southeast European Studies

This book tackles the spatial dimension of Europeanization in the Balkans by focusing on cities, inter-urban networks, and urban epistemic communities.

Exploring the participation of urban actors from the Balkans in 18 European inter-urban networks, it employs a new mixed-method framework to show how such participation continuously reshapes Balkan Cities’ urban trajectories with contradictory and variegated consequences. Against the backdrop of the existing state and conflict-centred literature on (failures) of European integration in the region, the author offers a fresh perspective on Europeanization as it unfolds through direct inter-city cooperation.

This volume will be of interest to both scholars of urban studies and Southeast European Studies, as well as anyone interested in the Europeanization of the Balkans and its cities.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pajvan¿i¿-Cizelj, Ana

Pajvancic-Cizelj, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Europeanization as a Context of Social Action 2. Cities in the European Context 3. Urban Networks and their Role in Europeanization 4. Balkans Cities in the European Urban Networks: Affiliation Network Analysis and Visualizations 5. Rethinking the European City from a Southeast European Perspective 6. Urban Epistemic Communities and Europeanization in Balkans 7. European Urban Networks as Aspirational Horizon of Europeanization in the Balkans 8. European Urban Networks: Between Aspiration, Performativity and Autocratic Cooptation

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Pajvancic-Cizelj is an urban sociologist specializing in global urban studies, with a particular interest in the interplay between cities and broader political processes such as Europeanization and (de)democratization. She is currently a senior scientist at the Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy at Danube University Krems, Austria. Previously, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad.