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European Solidarity: Conditions, Forms, Limitations, and Implications European Solidarity: Conditions, Forms, Limitations, and Implications The TransSOL Project’s Final Conference: A Presentation and Discussion of Three Years of Research Findings 16-17 May 2018 Factory Forty Rue des Anciens Etangs 40 1190 Brussels, Belgium Program 16 May 2018 9:00 – 9:30 Registration 14:00 – 15:30 Panel 2 - Civil Society (continued) 9:30 – 10:00 Opening Remarks No borders? Tracing solidarity towards migrants and refugees in a changing Europe 10:00 – 11:00 Keynote 1 Tom Montgomery, Ulrike Zschache, Eva Fernández G. G. Is solidarity based on a particular understanding of Transnational activism during global crises: Comparison common good? of Greek and Italian solidarity and social movement Gian-Andrea Monsch with Florence Passy organizations in times of economic and refugee crises (University of Lausanne) Angelos Loukakis, Nicola Maggini 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Patterns of solidarity in precarious times: The role of trade unions and labour organisations in the UK, Greece and Poland 11:30 – 13:00 Panel 1 - Civil Society Kostas Kanellopoulos, Christina Karakioulafi, (Chairs: Maria Kousis and Simone Baglioni) Tom Montgomery, Simone Baglioni, Janina Petelczyc Solidarity approaches of transnational organizations during 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee crises: Migration, disability and unemployment across eight European countries Maria Kousis, Christian Lahusen, Eva Fernández G. G., 16:00 – 17:00 Keynote 2 Angelos Loukakis Between hope and fear? Regional dividing lines in attitudes towards a Social Europe What solidarity is about? – Reflections among civil society activists in Germany, Poland and Greece Wim van Oorschot (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Femke Roosma (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Ulrike Zschache, Maria Theiss, Maria Paschou Transnational solidarity to refugees in Greece, 17:00 Reception Germany and Denmark Kostas Kanellopoulos, Deniz Duru, Ulrike Zschache, Angelos Loukakis, Maria Kousis, Hans-Jörg Trenz 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 2 3 Program 17 May 2018 8:30 – 9:00 Registration 14:45 – 16:15 Panel 5 - Public Opinion and Solidarity (continued) 9:00 – 10:00 Keynote 3 Do unto others? Individual-level mechanisms of solidarity Welfare reform in Greece: A major crisis, crippling debt Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso conditions and stark challenges ahead Maria Petmesidou (Democritus University, Greece) European solidarity: The spatial reach of civic solidarity between the national and the global Christian Lahusen, Maria Theiss 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Ties of solidarity at the fringes of the political spectrum: 10:30 – 12:00 Panel 3 — The Public Discourse on Solidarity partisan cleavages in reported solidarity action across Europe An introduction and comparative perspective Johannes Kiess and Hans-Jörg Trenz Manlio Cinalli and Hans-Jörg Trenz 16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Roundtable Discussion 12:00 – 13:15 Lunch 16:45 – 18:15 Panel 6 - Public Opinion and Solidarity (continued) Refugees and individual solidarity: an unconditioned and 13:15 – 14:30 Panel 4 - Public Opinion and Solidarity universalistic, but politically bounded solidarity? (Chairs: Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni) Nicola Maggini, Veronica Federico, Eva Fernández G. G. Till debts do us part? Exploring the relationship between the Welfare attitudes and transnational solidarity digital divide and support for bailout funds amongst EU citizens Anna Kurowska, Olga Eisele, Johannes Kiess Olga Eisele and Verena K. Brändle Institutionalized forms of solidarity and the migration challenge Brexit, separatism and individual solidarity: Eva Fernández G. G. Evidence from eight European countries Simone Baglioni, Olga Biosca, Tom Montgomery 18:15 – 18:30 Closing Remarks 14:30 – 14:45 Coffee 4 5 Abstracts Keynote 1 Here, we adopt a pre-liberal definition Gian-Andrea Monsch Keynote 2 of common good, based on Aristotle’s is a senior researcher Is solidarity based on a particular works, that defines common good as at the Swiss Centre of Between hope and fear? Regional understanding of common good? goods which should be accessible to Expertise in the Social dividing lines in attitudes towards a Gian-Andrea Monsch with all society members and should ob- Sciences at the Uni- Social Europe Florence Passy (University of Lausanne) jectively improve people’s well-being. versity of Lausanne. Wim van Oorschot (KU Leuven, Belgium) Commonness and Goodness are the He works for and and Femke Roosma (Tilburg University, Is solidarity based on a particular un- two key dimensions to think about with the Swiss House- Netherlands) derstanding of common good is the common good. Second, based on hold Panel data. He is key question of our presentation. We those dimensions we will show how therefore specialized in the collection In the process of European integration will see that understandings of com- activists understand common good, and analysis of longitudinal data where social policy has been, and still is, a mon good allows individuals to bring how they make sense of commonness he tries to trace the effects of conten- contested issue. The development of solidarity to others, but in a more ex- and goodness, and how both mental tious participation and other forms of European social policies and the inher- tensive or restrictive way. The activists’ constructs orient their action towards activism on people’s minds. He con- ent trans-national solidarity has prov- mental construction about common specific form of action. We underscore ducted his PhD as an assistant of the re- en not to be politically feasible. One good enables them to orient their a mental process by which broad per- search project where the upcoming talk of the main reasons suggested for this action specifically. This mental con- ceptions of commonness and good- and the book manuscript Contentious is that there is too much diversity in struction allows activists to commit ness are transformed into cognitive Minds are grounded. His PhD analysed Europe, in an institutional, socio-eco- for others in distinct ways. Either they components that set activists’ inten- the importance of understandings of nomic and cultural sense (Banchoff and commit for a ‘universal’ other – without tionality: In particular, they enable to common good, politics, and citizenship Smith, 1999; Ferrera, 2005; Habermas, any social distinction – or for a specific understand for whom, for what, and in for contentious participation. 2013), which makes it difficult, as sug- group of people inhabiting society. In which field activists mobilize. gested by Scharpf (2002), to come to addition, common good perceptions Florence Passy agreement on the types and levels of orient activists’ action towards politics: Finally, we will address the question of is professor of politi- social protection that would be need- Either by challenging political actors or how this mental construction of com- cal science at the Uni- ed. In other words, European diversity by providing other with help and thus mon good is elaborated in the activists’ versity of Lausanne in welfare perspectives and attitudes completely avoiding the political arena minds. We will see how central conver- (Switzerland). She may stand in the way of a truly ‘Social as well as political conflicts. According sational interactions taking place with- has extensively writ- Europe’, in which there are EU social to the activists’ conception of common in a commitment site are to shape the ten on contentious rights for EU citizens. good the way they bring solidarity activists’ understandings of common politics, and specifi- greatly varies. Based on survey and in- good. This in turn explains why activists cally on individual participation. She is From past Eurobarometer data we terview data of activists committed to construct community-specific under- particularly interested to seize the role know that in general majorities of the contentious politics, volunteering and standings, why these understandings of social networks in mobilization pro- citizenry of EU countries oppose to the unionism in Switzerland, we discuss of common good are as plural and how cesses, and to grasp the effect of the in- EU taking binding decisions on health how activists grasp common good and they enable to perform distinct actions terpretative dimensions of networks on and welfare policies (Mau, 2005). How- how this conception specifically ori- of solidarity. To conclude, we aim to en- contention in particular, and activism ever, there are differences between ents their action. We also discuss why large our findings from the Swiss con- at large. She has also worked, in collab- European regions: e.g. people in the those understandings vary from one text to the transnational one. What do oration with Koopmans, Statham, and Scandinavian countries oppose such activist site to another. our results bring to seize transnational Giugni, on discourse and culture in the binding decisions strongest, while the solidarity? claim-making of collective actors in the Mediterranean people are stronger In our talk, we will first define the con- field of citizenship and migration. In supporters. Mau (2005) suggests that cept of common good and examine addition, she has undertaken research these differences are rooted in the how it relates to the idea of solidarity. on altruism, and political altruism. performance evaluations of people’s 6 7 Abstracts own welfare states: Where Scandinavi- evaluation are related to attitudes to- er of the Welfare Attitudes modules and its neo-liberal assumptions in an an people may fear that the standards wards EU social policy. With the repeat in the European
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