Imagining Europe

1. Introduction: Imagining Europe. Transnational contestation and civic populism: Paul Blokker- Section 1: Transnational mobilization.- 2. Left-wing social movements between strong European identities and the challenges of transnational activism. The Case of DiEM25: Ondrej Císar and Manès Weisskircher.- 3. Alter- not pro-European: The question of Europe in transnational activist networks: Antje Scharenberg.- 4. European space in the Euroalternativist discourse: detachment, utopia, strategy, and a life story: Yuliya Moskvina.- Section 2: Transnational left populism.- 5. Transnational Populism and the European Union: An Uneasy Alliance? The Case of DiEM25: Panos Panayotu.- 6. Transnational populism: the populist challenge from the Left?: Patricia Chiantera.- 7. Left Populism and 'Another Europe': Europeanization, International Sovereigntism and Transnationalism: Óscar García Agustín.- 8. Winds of Change, or Fighting the Windmills: Exploring the Economic Visions of the Pan-European Movement DiEM25: Kristián Srám.- Section 3: Transnational constituent power and constitutionalism.- 9. European constitutional politics and the making of collective self-images.- 10. Technocracy and populism as a consequence of political de-constitutionalization:  Pablo Holmes.- 11. Transnational Populism in Context: The UN, the EU, and Beyond: Kolja Möller.- 12. The Constitutional Deficit, Constituent Activism and the (Conference on the) Future of Europe: Paul Blokker.

Paul Blokker is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy and Research Coordinator at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.