TY - JOUR
T1 - Building Europe on a weak field
T2 - Law, economics, and scholarly avatars in transnational politics
AU - Mudge, Stephanie Lee
AU - Vauchez, Antoine
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - The present article mobilizes the concepts of "weak field" and "avatar" to explain Europe's historically variable meanings, analyzing two successful reinventions (as a "community of law" and a "single market") and one failure ("social Europe"). Focusing on law and econ rly avatars. Depending on their strategic positioning, scholarly avatars facilitate symbolic exchange across political, technocratic, and scholarly boundaries and endow theoretical constructions with performative potential.
AB - The present article mobilizes the concepts of "weak field" and "avatar" to explain Europe's historically variable meanings, analyzing two successful reinventions (as a "community of law" and a "single market") and one failure ("social Europe"). Focusing on law and econ rly avatars. Depending on their strategic positioning, scholarly avatars facilitate symbolic exchange across political, technocratic, and scholarly boundaries and endow theoretical constructions with performative potential.
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U2 - 10.1086/666382
DO - 10.1086/666382
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84867777219
SN - 0002-9602
VL - 118
SP - 449
EP - 492
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
IS - 2
ER -