Culture, Practice & Europeanization

The President of the European Commission plays a pivotal role in setting the agenda of the European Union. This is crucial for gender equality policy, given its horizontal nature. Gender equality policy requires coordination across multiple policy...

Crises intensify struggles over collective identity, as political actors compete to define who “we” are under uncertainty, within digital environments where algorithms shape which narratives gain visibility. While existing research shows how...

The European Parliament’s (EP) image as supranational gender equality and LGBTQIA+ inclusivity promoter is challenged by the increase of anti-gender claims and positions. We discuss what specific vulnerabilities and threats the EP’s strong...

Post-industrial societies increasingly face conflicting forces that simultaneously advance and resist gender equality. While policy efforts have advanced women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights, a reactionary discourse has gained traction in Europe, often...

This study examines how gender-related attitudes are structured within contemporary cultural conflict lines and whether digital communicative engagement is associated with regressive positioning on gender issues. While support for formal gender...

Political leadership has long been associated with masculine traits such as assertiveness, toughness, and task-orientation. Contemporary politics challenges and reproduces this model. The growing presence of women in leadership and crises that...

This article examines how climate change skepticism (CCS) intersects with sexism and masculinity in Southern Norway. It reveals how CCS can serve as a tactic to reject the perceived feminized and moralizing power of climate attitudes. Drawing on...

This article focuses on responses to drought among Polish farmers. Framed by the concept of the involvement–detachment continuum, as proposed by Norbert Elias, this article shows the unbreakable bond between natural occurrences and social life,...

Climate change is one of the most important pieces of evidence for what is currently discussed as ‘the Anthropocene’, the age of human domination of the planet. At the same time, it poses a real threat to the survival of human civilisation. This...

Military force has historically shaped human societies and their environments, often leaving profound and lasting ecological impacts. The environmental consequences of military activities – even in peacetime – can endure for generations. This...

This article explores the analytical potential of Norbert Elias’s notion of social habitus for understanding resistance and change in everyday practices relevant to demand-side climate mitigation. It unfolds in two steps. First, it revisits the...

This paper revisits Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilising process in light of the ecological, economic, and political transformations of the 21st century. It argues that Elias’s triad of controls – over the self (psychogenesis), over others...

This paper provides a specific sociological explanation of the failing in effective climate protection, analysing the unique societal constellations in which a socio-ecological transformation is embedded. Starting with the urgent calls by the IPCC...

In the process of Europeanisation, the local level takes an intermediary position between citizens and the European level. A special feature of local authorities’ European involvement is that many local Europe-related activities are developed and...

Motivated by the growing political and economic significance of global talent mobility, this study focuses on municipal initiatives that aim to foster inclusion and retention. The purpose of this paper is to examine how Danish municipalities...

The book Anti-Gender Mobilisations in Europe and the Feminist Response: Productive Resistance (Smrdelj & Kuhar, 2025a) asks how feminists adapt their strategies over time in response to a new, hostile environment of anti-feminism. This review...

Digital platforms are reshaping how career success is understood in the music industry. Existing research has mainly focused on the effects of platforms on music production, visibility, and professional practices, yet it has seldom explored how...

This article examines how the Schengen system generates new tensions between European integration and state sovereignty. Schengen challenges the traditional concept of sovereignty by transferring border control to the European level, while...

When Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it was seen as a watershed moment in European history, dividing time into “before” and “after”. The German chancellor’s talk of a “turning point”...

Expanding on the concept of the moral economy, the article investigates implicit justice assumptions connected to family policies in post-industrial European welfare states. Most authors argue that family policies support new understandings of...