EURoWEB · SPATIALITIES OF EUROPEANIZATION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-10-01 → 2024-03-31
- EU contribution
- €186,167
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
SPATIALITIES OF EUROPEANIZATION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS
Europeanization is a contested term, especially in the Western Balkans undergoing a complex transformation. Most of the research and debates about the Balkans focus on nation-states, their relationship with the EU, and ethnic conflicts in the region, leaving aside other processes occurring in the context of Europeanization elsewhere. The main objective of the Marie Curie EUROWEB project was to illuminate how Europeanization in the Balkans unfolds through a direct collaboration of cities via transnational urban networks. To achieve this goal the project opened a dialogue between urban studies and Southeast European studies and developed a new framework for analysing Europeanization broad enough to encompass its various manifestations at different spatial levels. The findings are significant for the society as they point to the continuous Europeanization efforts among urban actors in the Western Balkans, despite the slowing pace of the European Integration of the region. They can inform EU enlargement and cohesion policies and influence urban policymaking in the Western Balkans and beyond.
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Project objective
The researcher will carry out a EURoWEB to examine how the Europeanization of the Western Balkans (WB) manifests at insufficiently researched socio-spatial levels. By introducing an innovative TPSN (Territory, Place, Scale, Network) framework to the Europeanization studies, testing it in a WB region with the “gender lens” and developing a new methodological tool, the project will explore the way the territory, place, scale, and network interact to enable or to inhibit the Europeanization of WB. Starting from the critical and the horizontal conception of Europeanization, the Europeanization of WB will be analysed by focusing on the exchange, transfer, and mutations of EU urban policies, through inter-urban networks (IUN). The researcher will collect qualitative and quantitative data about the participation of urban actors from Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade (Serbia), Pristina (Kosovo) in the selected European IUN and conduct a social network analysis (SNA) and qualitative network analysis (QNA) to grasp not only the networks impact but also their interplay with other socio-spatial dimensions in which they are embedded. This will allow her to sketch the contours and explain the underlying, invisible and undertheorized, but potent spatialities that underpin the dynamic process of Europeanization of WB. The fellowship will provide a unique opportunity for filling the significant gaps between socio-spatial theorising and Europeanization studies. Capitalizing from the fruitful exchange between researcher expertise in urban sociology and host institution and supervisor’s expertise in Southeastern European studies / Europeanization, the overall aim of the fellowship is to develop a new socio-spatial conception of Europeanization and a new method that can be used in the further Europeanization research, in and out the EU, as well as in the further empirical testing of the TPSN
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Participants
- UNIVERSITAET GRAZ · GrazCoordinatorAustria
Links
- View on CORDIS
- DOI: 10.3030/101028592
- https://anapajvanciccizelj.com/marie-curie-if-european-commission/
Data: CORDIS, © European Union