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Practicing EU government: problematisation, mobilisation and legitimation    

 

 

 

Invited Speakers

Craig Parsons works in Political Science at the University of Oregon. His research interests are in the ideas, political principles and institutions in contemporary Europe, and especially on methodological questions on how we study their interactions. He has published A Certain Idea of Europe (Cornell University Press, 2003, winner of the International Studies Association's Alger Prize for the best book on international organization in 2003) and led three edited-book projects, respectively on EU politics (Oxford University Press, 2005), immigration in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and ‘constructivist' political economy (under review). Other work includes ‘Showing Ideas as Causes: The Origins of the European Union', International Organisation, 56(1), 2002, 47-84. Recent work includes: How to Map Arguments in Political Science; New York, OUP, 2007; ‘Au-delà du Bourdivin: Distinguishing ‘Sociological Approaches' to the EU, paper presented at ECPR, Joint Sessions, Rennes, April 2008.

Cris Shore looks at EU institutions and the construction of European identity through the perspective of a cultural anthropologist. His research interest lies in the EU turn towards cultural action to aid political legitimacy and integration. He has published ‘Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power' (European Association of Social Anthropologists) [with Susan Wright] Routledge, 1997. Recent work includes Building Europe, the Cultural Politics of European Integration, 2000, London: Routledge.

Virginie Guiraudon is a Senior research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Lille, France. She has been awarded the CNRS bronze medal for research and the European Union Studies Association best paper prize. She is the author of ‘Les politiques d'immigration en Europe' (l'Harmattan, 2000), ‘The Emergence of a European Union Policy Paradigm amidst Contrasting National Models: Britain, France and EU Anti-Discrimination Policy', West European Politics, 27/2, (2004). Her current research analyzes the shifting of policy competence in the area of migration, asylum and anti-discrimination to the EU and the delegation of migration control to local, private and transnational actors. Recent work includes ‘The constitution of a European immigration policy domain: a political sociological approach' in Journal of European Public Policy, 10:2, April 2003: 263-282; "The EU through Europeans' Eyes: Political Sociology and EU Studies", EUSA Review, 19(1), Winter 2006.

Chris Rumford works as a political sociologist at Royal Holloway. His interests are in European transformations in the context of globalization; cosmopolitanism; borders and bordering. Published work includes ‘Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization' (with Gerard Delanty) Routledge 2005; and the Sage Handbook of European Studies [editor] 2008. His work demonstrates the need for a political sociology of European integration and reflects upon how to incorporate ideas from contemporary social theory, particularly on governmentality, into a new political sociology of the EU. Recent work includes ‘The European Union: a Political Sociology' Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

 

Local Speakers

 

Christina Boswell is Senior Lecturer in Politics. Christina's research explores problems of regulation, legitimacy and expertise, especially in relation to European migration policy. She is currently leading an EU Excellence Grant on "Expanding the Knowledge Base of European Labour Migration Policies" (2004-8).

Relevant Publications
- "The Political Functions of Expert Knowledge: Knowledge and Legitimation in European Union Immigration Policy", Journal of European Public Policy (2008), 15:4, 471-488.
- "Knowledge, Legitimation and the Politics of Risk: The Functions of Research in Public Debates on Migration", Political Studies (2008), 56:2.
- Evasion, Reinterpretation and Decoupling: European Commission responses to the ‘External Dimension' of Immigration and Asylum", West European Politics (2008), 31:3, 491-512.
- The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009).


Caitríona Carter is Senior Lecturer at the Europa Institute and Research Fellow at SPIRIT, Sciences Po, Bordeaux. Her research is structured by a central line of inquiry developed within institutionalist theory, grounded in political sociology, examining dialectics of macro-micro processes of political change. To advance research questions from within this approach, she is engaged on three research and writing projects: 1. Studying regions as ‘spaces' for EU politics; 2. ‘Better' regulation and the transformation of UK-EU fisheries; 3. ‘UK'-EU parliamentary governance post-devolution. Her work collaborative and individual has been funded within ESRC and British Academy grants (ESRC. L327 25 3024; ESRC L219 25 2003; BA R39495).

Relevant Publications
- ‘Globalization, Scottish Fisheries and ‘Political Work': Global-EU-Local Dialectics' in Jullien, B. and Smith, A. (Eds.) Industries and Globalization: The Political Causality of Divergent Responses, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008, pp. 149-181;
- ‘Identifying Causality in Public Institutional Change: The Adaptation of the National Assembly of Wales to the European Union', Public Administration, Vol. 86, No. 2, 2008, 345-361;
- ‘Revitalizing Public Policy Approaches to the EU: ‘Territorial Institutionalism,' Fisheries and Wine', Journal of European Public Policy, 15(2), 2008, 263-281, with Smith, A;
- ‘Intégration européenne et gouvernance régionale : la congruence?', en Faure (A.), Leresche (J- P), Muller (P.), Nahrath (S.) (Dir.), Action publique et changements d'échelles: les nouvelles focales du politique, Paris, L'Harmattan, pp. 259-270, 2007, with Pasquier, R.

 

Richard Freeman teaches theory and method in the School of Social and Political Studies, and directs the University's Public Policy Network. His current research is concerned with knowledge problems in public policy, and in particular with the transfer of knowledge and policy across EU countries.

Relevant Publications

- 'Learning by meeting', Critical Policy Analysis, 2009, forthcoming
- 'A National Health Service, by comparison' Social History of Medicine 2008, forthcoming
- 'Epistemological bricolage: how practitioners make sense of learning', Administration and Society 39 (4) 476-496, 2007
- 'The work the document does. Research, policy and equity in health', Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31 (1) 51-70, 2006
- ‘Learning in public policy', in Rein, M, Moran, M and Goodin, R E (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006

 

Sotiria Grek is Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh. Current Research is conducted within two funded-research projects: 1 Knowledge and Policy: The role of Knowledge in the construction and regulation of Health and Education policy in Europe: convergences and specificities among nations and sectors (Know+Pol) (European Commission Framework 6), 2006-2011; 2. Fabricating Quality In European Education (FabQ) (ESF/ESRC ‘EUROCORES') 2006-2009.

Relevant Publications
- ‘From symbols to numbers: the shifting technologies of education governance in Europe', European Education Research Journal, 7(2).
‘Governing by Numbers: The PISA effect in Europe', Journal of Education Policy (forthcoming)
- ‘The figure in the (land)scape: hybridity and transformation in education governance in England', in M. Simons, M. Olssen, M. Peters (eds) Re-reading education policies: studying the policy agenda of the 21st century, Sense Publishers (forthcoming) (with Lawn, M.)
- ‘National policy brokering and the construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland', Comparative Education (forthcoming) (with Lawn, M., Lingard, B., Ozga, J. Rinne, R., Segerholm, C. and Simola, H.)

 

Irvine Lapsley is Professor of Accounting and Director of the Institute of Public Sector Accounting Research at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He is the Editor of Financial Accountability & Management, the leading research journal in public finance. He has lectured in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and across Europe. He is Chair of the Scientific Committee of the EIASM Public Sector Conference and co-chair of the EIASM Third Sector Research Workshop and the CIMA New Public Sector Seminar. He is budget adviser to the Health and Sport Committee and was formerly adviser to the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament. He has published widely in international research journals.

His latest book (with Ezzamel, Hyndman and Johnsen) is Accounting in Politics: Devolution and Democratic Accountability (2008), published by Routledge. His current research is an investigation of comparative governmental accounting in Europe.

Martin Lawn is Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh. Current Research is conducted within two funded-research projects: 1 Knowledge and Policy: The role of Knowledge in the construction and regulation of Health and Education policy in Europe: convergences and specificities among nations and sectors (Know+Pol) (European Commission Framework 6), 2006-2011; 2. Fabricating Quality In European Education (FabQ) (ESF/ESRC ‘EUROCORES') 2006-2009.

Relevant Publications
- ‘Soft Governance and the Learning Spaces of Europe', in Comparative European Politics: Rethinking European Spaces, 4(2), July 2006;
- ‘The ‘Usefulness' of Learning: the struggle over governance, meaning and the European education space', in Discourse Vol 24 No3 2003;
- Fabricating Europe - The Formation of an Education Space, 2002 Kluwer, London, with Antonio Novoa (Eds);
- ‘Constructing a European Policy Space in Educational Governance: The Role of Transnational Policy Actors', in European Educational Research Journal, 1(2), 2002;
- ‘Borderless Education: imagining a European education space in a time of brands of networks' in Discourse Vol 22 No 2 2001.

Jenny Ozga is Director, Centre for Educational Sociology (CES) Jenny's research is in education policy and policy-making. Recent work has focused on the idea of ‘Europeanisation' of education policy.She is currently co-ordinating an ESF project 'Fabricating Quality in European Education' (2006-09)

Relevant Publications
- ‘National policy brokering and the construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland' Accepted by Comparative Education (issue no not yet known) with Grek, S., Lawn, M., Lingard, B., Rinne, R., Segerholm, C. and Simola, H. (2008 forthcoming)

- Governing Knowledge: A Perspective from the Centre for Educational Sociology (CES)' T Bryce and W Humes (eds) Education in Scotland (3rd Edition), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press., 2008.
- ‘Schooling in Future(s): Learning for Life in Scotland', Revue Internationale de L'Education de Sevres, No 46, CIEP, December, 2008.
Globalisation, Education Policy and Politics', in
- The Routledge Falmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics, London, Routledge with Lingard, R. (Eds) , 2007.

Andy Smith is Directeur de Recheche at SPIRIT Sciences-Po Bordeaux and Honorary Fellow, Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh. He has conducted research upon some of the central organs of the EU (the Commission, the Council), as well as a number of Europeanized sectors (wine, food, internal security). More recently still, he has been engaging in debates around the political economy of industries and has attempted to develop a generalizable framework and research design, including the refinement of the intermediary concept of ‘political work'.

Relevant Publications
- ‘The government of the European Union', in B. Palier, P. Hall and C. Culpepper, eds. Changing France : The Politics that Markets Make, London, Palgrave, 2006.
- Le gouvernement de L'Union européenne. Une sociologie politique, Paris, LGDJ, 2004.
- ‘Why European Commissioners Matter', Journal of Common Market Studies, 41 (1), March 2003, pp. 137-155.
- Les commissaires européens : Technocrates, diplomates ou politiques, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, (with J. Joana) 2002.

Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology in the School of Law. With colleagues from Glasgow, Stirling and other Scottish Universities he has helped to co-found and is a Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research http://www.sccjr.ac.uk/ . Richard's main research interests lie in prisons; penal politics; and public responses to crime and punishment. He is currently writing a book with Ian Loader (University of Oxford) on the public roles and uses of criminology (Public Criminology? Routledge, 2009) and is working with Dario Melossi (Bologna) and Maximo Sozzo (Buenos Aires) on a collection of essays concerned with the transnational mobility of ideas and practices on crime control. He is a member of Edinburgh Law School's Centre for Law and Society.


Relevant publications:
- Criminal Justice and Political Cultures, with Tim Newburn (eds), Willan, 2004
- Criminology and Social Theory, with David Garland (eds), Oxford University Press, 2000 (also published as British Journal of Criminology, 40, 2)
- with Ian Loader 'For an Historical Sociology of Crime Policy in England and Wales since 1968' (2004) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Vol. 7(2): 5-32
- 'Degrees of estrangement: The cultural theory of risk and comparative penology' (2001) Theoretical Criminology Vol. 5(2): 159-176
- 'Ordinary Anxieties and States of Emergency: Statecraft and Spectatorship in the New Politics of Insecurity' in Lesley McAra and Sarah Armstrong (eds) Perspectives on Punishment (Oxford University Press, 2006) pp. 31-47
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