Science and Democracy - Contigent regularities in scholarly discourse on European governance
Pantzerhielm, Laura – 2016
This investigation proposes a reflexive, discourse-analytical approach for understanding "democracy" as an object of EU/European governance. Drawing on Michel Foucault, it contrasts regularities and exclusions that delineate the reasonably speakable about democracy within present formations of social science knowledge production and historical orders of speech in classical 19th century liberalism. In doing so, the study points to the specificity and instability of dominant contemporary perceptions of "democracy" as a stable European norm, subverts their present sense of naturalness and underlines their intimate relation with power.
Title
Science and Democracy - Contigent regularities in scholarly discourse on European governance
Author
Pantzerhielm, Laura
Publisher
Lit-Verlag (http://www.lit-verlag.de)
Location
Münster et al.
Date
2016
Identifier
Bd. 45, 2016, 112 S., 29.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978-3-643-90724-0
Appeared in
Forschungsberichte Internationale Politik, Band 45
Language
eng
Type
Text