Prosiectau fesul blwyddyn
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The European project has long promised to smooth the socio-economic map, with ‘Cohesion’ the second largest item on the EU budget (after the Common Agricultural Policy). Yet, despite decades of regional development programmes, “What has the EU done for us?” seems to have become a question of the Brexit-era zeitgeist – and perhaps definitive of the feeling of being ‘stuck’ with inequality. While the media’s quasi-ethnographic discovery of ‘left behind’ places has made for headline infamy (turning Ebbw Vale into “Town Showered with EU Cash votes to Leave EU”), the European Commission has responded with communication campaigns, insisting on “What the EU does for you.” Yet, as we observe in this paper, the discursive implication that those purportedly ‘left behind’ merely do not know about EU funding sits at a disjuncture from their experiential knowledge of their own lives. Stepping further, we argue that Cohesion Policy’s techno-political promises of progress can serve to foreclose what Sen (1993) would recognise as local capabilities. Sketching vignettes from our respective fieldwork in Wales, and the Austro-Czech-Slovak-Hungarian border region, we treat EU funding as itself a kind of ethnographic object, that is parcelled, transported, and affectively inscribed. We explore how funding becomes an object for imagining equality, while transformative promises of a better future become materially enacted in ways that can, conversely, locally re-inscribe the sense of simply seeing more of the same.
Iaith wreiddiol | Saesneg |
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Statws | Cyhoeddwyd - 03 Medi 2019 |
Digwyddiad | Anthropological perspectives on global challenges: Annual Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK - Norwich, Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon Hyd: 03 Medi 2019 → 06 Medi 2019 https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa19/ |
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Cynhadledd | Anthropological perspectives on global challenges |
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Teitl cryno | ASA19 |
Gwlad/Tiriogaeth | Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon |
Dinas | Norwich |
Cyfnod | 03 Medi 2019 → 06 Medi 2019 |
Cyfeiriad rhyngrwyd |
Ôl bys
Gweld gwybodaeth am bynciau ymchwil 'What does the EU do for you? Funding discourses, local disjunctures and ‘left behind’ places'. Gyda’i gilydd, maen nhw’n ffurfio ôl bys unigryw.Prosiectau
- 1 Wedi Gorffen
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Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe (IMAJINE) - DGES
Woods, M. (Prif Ymchwilydd)
Horizon 2020 -European Commission
01 Ion 2017 → 30 Meh 2022
Prosiect: Ymchwil a ariannwyd yn allanol