European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  • Ian James Manners
The most common way of theorising the European Union’s crises is to see them as, at best, a run of ‘bad luck’, or at worst as ‘multiple challenges’. This chapter brings two very different perspectives to the study of the European Union (EU) and its crises by theorising European (dis)integration using the Critical Social Theory (CST) of ‘European communion’ (Manners, 2013a) within the context of ‘planetary organic crisis’ (Gill and Benatar, 2020). These perspectives mark a radical break from ‘classical integration theories’ in using CST; from viewing the crises as distinct from each other; and from seeing the crises as particular to the EU. The rest of this section sets out the main arguments for a European communion theory of planetary organic crisis. The following five sections focus on European communion in the context of the neoliberal economic, demographic social, climatic ecological, proxy conflict, and ethno-nationalist political crises of the 21st century. The final section concludes on making sense of European communion and planetary organic crisis
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTheorising the Crises of the European Union
EditorsNathalie Brack, Seda Gurkan
Number of pages24
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date1 Jan 2021
Pages159-182
Chapter10
ISBN (Print)9780367431402
ISBN (Electronic)9781003001423
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2021

    Research areas

  • Faculty of Social Sciences - European communion, European Union, European integration, planetary organic crisis, planetary politics

Number of downloads are based on statistics from Google Scholar and www.ku.dk


No data available

ID: 243917047