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Dr. Jan-Henrik Meyer
Aarhus Universitet
Department of Culture and Society
Post-doctoral Fellow
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 5
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Room
600
DK-8000
Aarhus C
Tel.:
+45 871 62314
E-Mail: jhmeyer@gmx.de
Short CV
- Rachel Carson Fellow at Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (2013)
- Postdoc at the University of Aarhus, Department of History and Area Studies, Research project "When Europe went green", part of "Transnational History" project, funded by the Danish Research Council (2010-12); Marie-Curie-Re-Integration Grant Research project "Transnational Networks in European Environmental Policy – Path Dependent or Learning" (2010-13)
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, University of Portsmouth, Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR) (2008-10) Research project "Protecting the Environment. Transnational Networks in the Emergence of a new EC Policy in the 1970s"
- PhD in Modern History, Freie Universität, Berlin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute, thesis: "Tracing the European Public Sphere. A Comparative Analysis of British, French and German Quality Newspaper Coverage of European Summits (1969-1991)"
- PhD student with the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) and the DFG-Graduate Programme "The New Europe", Humboldt-University/Freie Universität Berlin
- Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European History, Mainz, Germany, and the European University Institute, Florence
- Studied Modern History, Political Science, Sociology and European Studies at Humboldt-University Berlin, Duke University and the London School of Economics
Main Fields of Interest
- Europeanisation & Globalisation
- History and politics of European integration
- European public sphere / European identity / Democracy in the EU
- Media and politics
- Environmental policy making / Environmental history
- Transnational and comparative history
KFG Research Project
"Appropriating the Environment. How European Institutions received the Novel Idea of the Environment and made it their own"
International Conference (Call for Papers):
Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century:
International Organizations, Networks and
Diffusion of Ideas and Policies
organized by Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer
Research College (Kollegforschergruppe, KFG) “The Transformative Power of Europe”,
Free University of Berlin
Berlin, 25-27 October 2012
Publications
Monographs and Edited Volumes
with W. Kaiser, Eds. (2013). Societal Actors in European Integration 1958-1992. From Polity-Building to Transnational Politics and Policy-Making. Basingstoke. Palgrave.
(2010). The European Public Sphere. Media and Transnational Communication in European Integration 1969-1991. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag.
with W. Kaiser, Eds. (2010). Non-State Actors in European Integration in the 1970s: Towards a Polity of Transnational Contestation. Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. Special Issue 20(3).
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
(2013). A good European? Hans Edgar Jahn – Anti-Bolshevist, Cold-Warrior, Environmentalist. In: Living Political Biography. Narrating Ideas of Europe. Ed. A.-C. Lauring Knudsen and K. Gram-Skjoldager. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press.
(2013). Un faux départ? Les acteurs français dans la politique environnementale européenne des années 1970. In: Une protection de l'environnement à la française, XIXe-XXe siècles. Eds. J.-F. Mouhot and C.-F. Mathis. Paris, Éditions Champ Vallon.
(2013). Challenging the Atomic Community. The Emergence of the European Environmental Bureau and the Europeanization of Anti-Nuclear Protest. In: Eds. J.-H. Meyer and W. Kaiser. Societal Actors in European Integration 1958-1992. From Polity-Building to Transnational Politics and Policy-Making. Basingstoke. Palgrave.
with W. Kaiser (2013). Historical Approaches to Societal Actors in European Integration. In: Eds. J.-H. Meyer and W. Kaiser. Societal Actors in European Integration 1958-1992. From Polity-Building to Transnational Politics and Policy-Making. Basingstoke. Palgrave.
with W. Kaiser (2013). Societal Actors in European Integration. What have we learned? In: Eds. J.-H. Meyer and W. Kaiser. Societal Actors in European Integration 1958-1992. From Polity-Building to Transnational Politics and Policy-Making. Basingstoke. Palgrave.
with W. Kaiser (2013). Beyond Governments and Supranational Institutions: Societal Actors in European Integration. In: Eds. J.-H. Meyer and W. Kaiser. Societal Actors in European Integration 1958-1992. From Polity-Building to Transnational Politics and Policy-Making. Basingstoke. Palgrave.
with W. Kaiser (2013). Polity-Building and Policy-Making: Societal Actors in European Integration. In: Eds. J.-H. Meyer and W. Kaiser. Societal Actors in European Integration 1958-1992. From Polity-Building to Transnational Politics and Policy-Making. Basingstoke. Palgrave.
(2012).”L'européanisation de la politique environnementale dans les années 1970.” Vingtième Siècle 113 (1): 117-126.
(2011). “Green Activism. The European Parliament's Environmental Committee promoting a European Environmental Policy in the 1970s.” Journal of European Integration History 17(1): 73-86.
(2010). “Greening Europe? Environmental interest groups and the Europeanization of a new policy field.” Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 20(3): 83-104.
(2010). Saving Migrants: a Transnational Network supporting Supranational Bird Protection Policy in the 1970s. In:Transnational Networks in Regional Integration. Informal Governance in Europe 1945-83. Eds. W. Kaiser, M. Gehler and B. Leucht. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan: 176-198.
with W. Kaiser (2010). “Non-state actors in European integration in the 1970s. Towards a Polity of Transnational Contestation.” Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 20(3): 7-24.
(2009). Tracing Transnational Communication in the European Public Sphere: the Summit of The Hague 1969. In: The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity. 1950-72. Eds. W. Kaiser, B. Leucht and M. Rasmussen. London, Routledge: 110-128.
Other Articles, Book Chapters and Working Papers
(forthcoming). Getting started: Agenda-setting in European Environmental Policy in the 1970s. In: From Crisis to New Dynamics: the European Community 1974-83, Ed. J. Laursen. Brussels, Bruylant.
(forthcoming). Transnationale Geschichte. In: Zwischen Globalisierung und Europäisierung – Zum Standort der Geschichtswissenschaften heute. Ed. J. Elvert. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag.
(forthcoming). Die Anfänge der EG-Umweltschutzpolitik und zivilgesellschaftliche Mobilisierung. Die Vogelschutzdirektive 1979. In: Themenportal Europäische Geschichte, available at: http://www.europa.clio-online.de/ (2012-05-31).
(2011). Appropriating the Environment. How the European Institutions received the Novel Idea of the Environment as a Policy Area and made it their own. In: KFG-Working Paper Series (31), September 2011, Kolleg-Forschergruppe “The Transformative Power of Europe”, Freie Universität Berlin.
(2009). "Der Haager Gipfel 1969. Von den Krisen der 1960er Jahre zum europäischen politischen System." Themenportal Europäische Geschichte, http://www.europa.clio-online.de/2009/Article=364.
(2008). The Fall and Rise of the European Public Sphere. Path Dependent Responses to European Integration. In: Dialogo sull'Europa Vol. III. Eds. F. Di Sarcina, L. Grazi and L. Scichilone. Florence, Centro Editoriale Toscano: 327-340.
(2008). An Emerging Transnational Network of Communication on European Affairs? The European Public Sphere at EC Summits 1969-1991. Paper presented at the 7th European Social Science History Conference, 26th February – 1st March 2008, Lisbon, Portugal. Available here.
(2007). Habermas' Dream or Habermas' Nightmare? A Transnational, Participatory European Public Sphere at the Maastricht European Council 1991? In: European Voices. Actors and Witnesses of European Integration, Third HEIRS Conference, Geneva 2007, available here.
(2007). Does Mediatisation mean more Conflict? The Case of the European Councils 1969-1991. Paper presented at the Fourth ECPR General Conference, 6-8 September, Pisa, Italy. Panel PN 367 Contesting the Political Space over Europe, available here.
(2007). A European Public Sphere at the Summits of The Hague (1969) and Paris (1974)? Indications on the Basis of British, French and German Newspapers. In: Beyond the Customs Union: The European Community's Quest for Completion, Deepening and Enlargement, 1969-1975. Ed. J. van der Harst. Bruxelles, Bruylant: 341-357.
(2007). Was there a European Public Sphere at the Summit of The Hague 1969? An Analysis of Discourses on the Legitimacy of the EC. In: Cultures politiques, opinions publiques et intégration européenne. Ed. M.-T. Bitsch, W. Loth and C. Barthel. Bruxelles, Bruylant: 227-245.
(2006). (De-)Constructing Legitimacy in the European Public Sphere. German, French and British Newspaper Comments on the "Constitution" Summit 2004. In: Europe in its Making. Ed. S. Marton. Bucharest, Institutul European: 33-53.
(2006). A European Public Sphere at the Summits of The Hague (1969) and Paris (1974)? Common Issues and Frames in British, French and German newspapers. In: The Making and Unmaking of the European Union: "Fifty-five Years of Crabwalk?" Second HEIRS Conference, Portsmouth 2005, 37-44, available here.
(2006). The 1975 Referendum on Britain's Continued Membership in the EEC. In: European Navigator http://www.ena.lu?lang=2&doc=21284.
(2004). Europäische Öffentlichkeit aus historischer Perspektive. In: Europäische Öffentlichkeit. Eds. U. K. Preuß and C. Franzius. Baden-Baden, Nomos: 209-227.
(2004). „Gibt es eine Europäische Öffentlichkeit? Neuere empirische Studien zu Demokratiedefizit, Legitimation und Kontrolle in Europa.“ Berliner Journal für Soziologie 14(1): 135-143.
Reviews
(2011). "‘Die Wahrheit ist auf dem Feld. Eine Wissensgeschichte der deutschen Landwirtschaft.' F. Uekötter 2010. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht." In: H-Soz-u-Kult 30.06.2011.
(2011). "'Von Helden und Opfern. Eine Geschichte des Volkstrauertages.' A. Kaiser 2010. Frankfurt am Main, Campus." In: H-Soz-u-Kult 20.01.2011.
(2010). "'Europe. The Faltering Project.' J. Habermas 2009. Cambridge, Polity Press." Journal of Contemporary European Studies 18(1): 126-128.
(2009). "'Europe since the Seventies.' J. Black 2009. London, Reaktion Books." Journal of Contemporary European Studies 17(3): 455.
(2009). “Europäische Integration und Identität. Review on ‘Europäisierung nationaler Identitätsdiskurse? Ein Vergleich französischer und deutscher Printmedien’. Seidendorf, Stefan, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2007; and ‘Nation und Europa in Parlamentsdebatten zur Europäischen Integration. Identifikationsmuster in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien nach 1950’. Müller-Härlin, Maximilian, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2008.” H-Soz-u-Kult, 28 February 2009; available at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2009-1-172 (2012-05-31).
(2006). “Postwar European integration: Europe recast.” Review Essay on ‘Europe recast: A History of the European Union.’ D. Desmond. 2004. London: Palgrave; ‘Die Europäische Integration.’ J. Elvert. 2006. Die Europäische Integration. Darmstadt: WBG; ‘Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945.’ T. Judt 2005. New York: Penguin.” Historische Literatur 4(3): 341-348; H-Soz-u-Kult 22.09.2006.
(2004). "' Life after Death. Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s.' Eds. R. Bessel and D. Schumann 2003. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press." Historische Literatur 2(3): 343-345; H-Soz-u-Kult 14.07.2004.
(2003). "'Bürgerschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Demokratie in Europa.' Eds. A. Klein et al. 2002. Opladen." Berliner Debatte Initial 14(4/5): 211-213.
