European Objects: The Troubled Dreams of Harmonization Laurent Brice
European Objects: The Troubled Dreams of Harmonization Laurent Brice How interventions based on objects--including chemicals, financial products, and consumer goods--offer a path to rethink European…
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European Objects: The Troubled Dreams of Harmonization Laurent Brice
How interventions based on objects--including chemicals, financial products, and consumer goods--offer a path to rethink European integration.Interventions based on objects, Brice Laurent claims, have become a dominant path for European policy-making. He uses the term "European objects" to describe technical entities that are regulated--and thereby transformed--by European policies. In European Objects, Laurent analyzes the political consequences of these interventions and their democratization.
Laurent argues that taking European objects seriously offers a way to rephrase the dreams of harmonization and, eventually, To uncover the bureaucratic and regulatory intricacies of European governance, Laurent focuses on a series of these objects, including food products, chemicals, financial products, consumer goods, drinking water, and occupational environments.