| Autor: |
Kuus, Merje |
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Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography; Sep2024, Vol. 106 Issue 3, p274-288, 15p |
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This paper investigates boundary spaces and agents in one social field: the socialization of diplomatic and European Union (EU) professionals in Europe. Theoretically, I combine the geographical work on boundary practices in diplomacy with the Bourdieusian scholarship on transnational fields in sociology and international relations. Empirically, I examine the institutional settings in which the professionals who move in EU diplomacy are trained and socialized. I theorize such settings as interstitial fields to highlight their ambiguous and in-between character. The professionals who move in such fields are nomadic figures who link and mediate multiple national, institutional, and cultural settings: they are both diplomats and Eurocrats at the same time. The paper foregrounds the hinge-like spaces and practices that regulate the production of diplomatic and EU-related expertise in contemporary Europe. It thereby contributes to our understanding of the workings of international governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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