A1 Journal article (refereed)
Scales of participation and multi-scalar citizenship in EU participatory governance (2021)

Mäkinen, K. (2021). Scales of participation and multi-scalar citizenship in EU participatory governance. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(5), 1011-1029. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420981379

JYU authors or editors

Mäkinen, Katja

Publication details

All authors or editors: Mäkinen, Katja

Journal or series: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

ISSN: 2399-6544

eISSN: 2399-6552

Publication year: 2021

Publication date: 26/12/2020

Volume: 39

Issue number: 5

Pages range: 1011-1029

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420981379

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/73595

Abstract

The EU still has a democratic deficit and its legitimacy is strongly questioned. This reveals the importance of citizenship and participation in the context of the challenges the EU faces today. The article contributes to the current discussions on the shifting frameworks of participation and citizenship through empirical research into the EU’s participatory governance. It asks how participation is framed in terms of scale and how these scalar framings are used to formulate citizenship in selected projects funded by the EU programmes on citizenship and culture. This microlevel analysis yields new insights into the politics of scale in the EU’s multilevel participatory governance. Frame analysis of the texts produced in these EU projects indicates how the combination of European and local scales is articulated to shape and regulate participation, citizenship and the EU as a community. The article therefore introduces a new concept, Euro-local scale, to make sense of this rehierarchisation of scales in the EU’s participatory governance.

Keywords: public administration; social inclusion; participation; citizenship; civil society

Free keywords: European Union; participatory governance; citizenship; politics of scale; framing

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