Identity Formation and Enlargement

Work package 8

WP Leader

Zdzislaw Mach, Jagiellonian University Krakow

 

WP 8 has two interrelated objectives. First, it addresses the crucial question of how much trust and commonality is needed to establish democracy, as a means of collective will formation at the various levels of governance of the compound EU-polity. Second, it analyses the formation of collective identities with regard to enlargement processes, with an emphasis on comparing the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ member states. This comparative study is based on an analysis of identity conflicts emerging in the process of EU constitutionalisation, democratisation and enlargement.

WP 8 establishes the link between democracy and identity prerequisites in a post-national polity, produces practical knowledge on the ways of reconciling the tension between the EU’s cosmopolitan vocation and contextualised identities, and conceptualises the role of collective identities in a theory of democratic deliberative supranationalism.

More details on the research objectives of WP 8.

 
WP 8 events

Publications and activities

RECON participants WP 8:

ARENA, University of Oslo
Hans-Jörg Trenz, Helene Sjursen

Eötvös Lórand University Budapest
Maria Heller, Agnes Rényi, Anna Wessely, Nora Schleicher

Freie Universität Berlin
Thomas Risse, Cathleen Kantner, Swantje Renfordt, Amelie Kutter

Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Zdenka Mansfeldová, Petra Rakusanová 

Jagiellonian University Krakow
Zdzisław Mach (leader WP 8), Arkadiusz Białek, Marcin Galent, Magdalena Góra, Jacek H. Kołodziej, Pawel Kubicki, Dariusz Niedźwiedzki, Jacek Nowak, Grzegorz Pożarlik, Katarzyna Zielińska, Olga Brzezińska

Riga Graduate School of Law
Kristine Kruma, Tatjana Evas

Sabanci University, Istanbul
Meltem Müftüler-Bac, Yaprak Gursoy

University of Bremen
Ulrike Liebert