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Distance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23sionMabel Berezin, Associate Professor of Sociology (Corresponding Author) Department of Sociology, 354 Uris HallCornell UniversityIthaca. NY 14853Telephone: 607-255-4042Fax: 607-255-8473; E-mail: mmb39@cornell.eduJuan Diez-Medrano, ProfessorDepartment of SociologyUniversidad de BarcelonaTeniente Co DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23ronel Valenzuela 1-1108034 Barcelona, SpainE-mail address: idiezmedrano@ub.edu: Tel: 011-34-9358978611 Acknowledgements: The alphabet has determined tDistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
he listing of the authors on this paper which was a joint product in conception and execution. The authors wish to thank participants in the session oDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23rlier version; Diez Medrano wishes to thank Akos Rona-Tas, attendants at the Department of Sociology Colloquium. Cornell University; as well as the Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Barcelona. The paper was completed while Diez Medrano was the holder of the Luigi Einaud DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23i Chair in European and International Studies at Cornell University. He gratefully acknowledges the support of the Institute for European Studies at CDistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
ornell in contributing to the completion of this article.Distance MattersDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support for EuropeaDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23his article relies on insights obtained from the literatures on the regionalist revival and local democracy that we group under the label localism and on experimental results on the relationship between distance and emotional involvement. Based on these insights, we develop a series of hypotheses co DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23ncerning the role of geographical distance in explaining support for the polity to which one belongs, which we then test with Eurobarometer data relatDistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
ive to support for the European Union. The results confirm the article’s hypothesis and open new perspectives on the constraints faced by a geographicDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23 distance embodied in the physical, cultural and territorial specificities OÍ space has lost much of its salience, rhe speed of the Internet, die sweep and pace of economic interconnectedness, the increase in the movement and migration ol peoples, and the emergence of supra-national forms of politic DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23al organization - all of those support the conviction that the "territorial age has passed" (Maier 2000). This claim is not entirely new. Tn 1976, socDistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
iologist Daniel Bell coined the term “eclipse of distance" Io argue that both modem aesthetics and psychology privileged the flexible mind over the roDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23ll as the perception of the "eclipse of distance" that Bell observed in aesthetics and psychology is axiomatic to a broad number of claims that analysts of all stripes now label as globalization (see for example, Kellner 2002; Guillen 2001; Fiss and Hirsch 2005).The compression of space and time tha DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23t geographer David Harvey (1989) identified as characteristic of post-modernity was constitutive of early versions of globalization theory. The assumpDistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
tion that sociological categories such as scale and propinquity were obsolete as analytic categories was implicit to die idea of space/timc compressioDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23s a-spatial 7 In general, propinquity was the object of interest among sociologists who studied mate selection, migration and discrimination. As a sociological conc ept, propinquity captured micro level processes of individual choice. Calhoun (1998) analyzes propinquity with respect to politics and DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23provides a rec ent summary of the term.https://khothuvien.cori!Distance Mattersapproach to globalization presupposed. Recently, sociologists (Gieryn 2DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
000; Griswold and Wright 2004; Lamont and Molnar 2002), historians (Applegate 1999; Sew ell 2001; Gerson 2003), philosophers (Casey 1997), geographersDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23zation discourse, and to turn to issues of propinquity and scale when talking about economic and political innovation and development (Brenner 1999). This new' interest in place provides a corrective to some of the more sweeping claims of globalization theory. Place studies are a first step towards DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23overcoming a persistent problem in the globalization literature-the absence of actors, as both agents and subjects of globalization. Globalization isDistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
often portrayed as agent-less -that is, an ineluctable machine driven by new' forms of technology and the expansion of financial markets. Apart from cDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23experience globalization is unfortunately sparse?Given the structural cast of the claims of globalization theory, it is difficult to assess how ordinary persons perceive the large-scale economic, social and cultural change that it describes. In brief, if the world has become global, does the average DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23 citizen feel and behave in a global way? hl particular, does he or she experience the “eclipse of distance” and the degradation of place?To address tDistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
his question, this paper focuses on the case of European integration, the economic and political project that began in 1951 with the Economic Coal andDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23e in the lead. See alsothe essays in Burawoy et. al. Global Ethnography (2000).Distance Mattersas a post World War II peace and economic reconstruction project among European nation-states, European integration has evolved into a more encompassing political and cultural project that systematically p DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23rivileges Europe as a single geographical space. On May 1, 2004, the European Union added 8 nation-states from the former Eastern bloc as well as CyprDistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
us and Malta. On October 3, 2005, membership negotiations began with Turkey in the context of debate on whether Turkey is really part of Europe. The cDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23), the term that includes the expanding and sometimes contested process of political and cultural integration, subsumes many of the same issues as globalization—market convergence; cultural homogenization; supranational polities. More clearly so than globalization, however, European integration is a DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23gent-driven. States, elites, and citizens are identifiable agents in the process of European integration. The decision to join Europe and the degree oDistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23
f integration, that is, the acceptance of particular European projects, are often subject to political referenda within individual nation-states (Hug Distance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ Permiss DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23y Union, and the approval of the EU Constitution. Moreover, every five years European Union citizens are called upon to elect representatives to the European Parliament. Europe as a political project offers citizens of individual European nation-states a menu of choices from which to shape national DistanceMattersSubmissionVersionFeb23visions of a continental Europe. With respect to European integration, popularhttps://khothuvien.cori!Distance MattersDistance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy and Popular Support forEuropean Integration'Word Count: 13.042Not For Citation, Without Authors’ PermissGọi ngay
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