EU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict

Abstract

"This volume provides a novel and relational sociological approach to the study of EU civil society. It focuses on the interactions and interrelations between civil society actors and the forms of capital that structure the fields and sub-fields of EU civil society, through new and important empirical studies on organized EU civil society"--Provided by publisher. 1. Thinking relationally: questions, themes and perspectives for the study of EU civil society -- 2. Changes in the field of EU civil society organisations: institutionalisation, differentiation and challengers -- 3. Informational capital: how it is developed and used by CSOs and EU institutions -- 4. Competing capital logics in the field of EU-level CSOs: 'autonomy from' or 'interconnectedness with' the EU -- 5. From coalition to community: collective identity formation in the social platform -- 6. Exploring competition and cooperation among EU-based international solidarity civil society organisations: the relevance of values, resources and external support -- 7. Conflict and cooperation: interactions among EU-level civil society organisations in the field of gender equality -- 8. Sex workers' rights movement and the EU: challenging the new European prostitution policy model -- 9. The formation of an EU-based CSO: a case study of the platform for international cooperation on undocumented migrants -- 10. The effect of the European citizens' initiative in the field of European civil society -- 11. Civil dialogue and the citizens' initiative: accounting for collaboration and competition using the advocacy coalition framework and the strategic action field -- 12. The European citizens' initiative stage: a snapshot of the cast and their acts -- 13. Fields with fields? Concluding remarks on the relationships between the European civil society and the EU bureaucratic fields.