Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Governmentality and political phenomena; 1 Theoretical perspective: governmentality and discursive formation of European civil society; Governmentality, governance and NGO phenomenon; Governing the EU and EU governance as a new form of governmentality; 2 Civil society participation in governance: a global project?; Political economy of civil society participation: neoliberal rationalities and government of the social; 3 European governance and civil society
European commission and proposing political projectsEvolution of civil society discourse in EU; The changing roles and discursive shifts of European civil society in EU governance; Further extension of the discourse: European civil society and technologies of EU communication; The stage and norms of civil society participation in EU governance: civil dialogue and consultations; Competing discourses on defining civil society in EU institutions; 4 A case study on the Social Platform: a performing agent of European civil society; EU politics, governance turn and Platform
Social Platform and social EuropeManagement of the Social Platform and influences of managerial formations; Platform and participation discourses; 5 Conducting a European civil society agency: embedding neoliberal governance through managerial subjects; References; Index
Summary
This book provides a critical analysis of the European Union's approach to 'governance', focusing on the way in which civil society is incorporated within the EU decision-making process and arguing that it is not conducive to the democratisation of EU governance. Using a governmentality approach, Kutay demonstrates that civic actors are not incorporated into EU decision-making processes as they are; rather, they are formed, manipulated and guided by political programming. The author explains how this acts to prescribe and construct particular types of subjectivities, thereby limiting
