Constructing Europe Through Mobility

  • Ander Audikana University of Deusto, Spain
  • Vincent Kaufmann École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-56-2017pp23-45
Keywords: mobility, Europe, free movement

Abstract

Promoting mobility through the development of the principle of free movement of people, goods, services and capital has been a cornerstone of the European integration process. This article offers a synthesis of the different European policies that have contributed to the development of this principle. Three types of policies are identified and analyzed: mobility regulation policies, investment policies for the equipment of European territory, and incentive policies to promote mobility. This analysis contributes to contextualize the current crisis of the principle of free circulation and advocates for an analytical critique (neither isolationist nor ultraliberal) of mobility.

Received: 07 February 2017
Accepted: 16 March 2017
Published online: 02 May 2017

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Author Biographies

Ander Audikana, University of Deusto, Spain

ANDER AUDIKANA (ander.audikana@deusto.es) is research associate at the University of Deusto (Spain). He studied sociology at University of Deusto in Bilbao, University Iberoamericana in Mexico City (Mexico) and École normale supérieure (Ulm) in Paris (France). He holds a Master of City and Regional Planning and a PhD in Sociology from University Paris-Est (France). His dissertation, The politics of the Spanish high-speed rail policy (1986-2011): the construction of a myth, the production of a consensus, the emergency of a controversy, was awarded with the best dissertation award “University Paris-Est 2012”. Ander was Fulbright-Schuman scholar at George Mason University School of Public Policy and the Center for Environmental Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley (United States of America - USA). He was also visiting research fellow at the LaSUR (Urban Sociology Laboratory) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland). His main researches focus on public policy, territorial analysis and European studies.

Vincent Kaufmann, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

VINCENT KAUFMANN (vincent.kaufmann@epfl.ch) is associate professor of urban sociology and mobility at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland). He studied sociology at the University of Geneva, followed by a doctorate from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1998. Since then he has been invited scholar at the University of Lancaster (2001), at the Ecole des Ponts, Paris (2001 – 2002); and invited professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (2002-2003), Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (2005-2017), Université Laval (2008), Nimegen University (2010) and Université de Toulouse Le Mirail (2011). He is director of the laboratory of Urban Sociology (LaSUR) and the Doctoral Program Architecture and Sciences of the City (EDAR) at the EPFL. He is also scientific director of the Think Tank Mobile Lives Forum in Paris. His research has focused essentially on urban life (multi-residency, the temporal and spatial arrangements of programs of activity); the politics or urban planning and transport; as well as the notion of mobility and its importance in terms of setting social structures.

Published
2017-04-30
How to Cite
Audikana, Ander, and Vincent Kaufmann. 2017. “Constructing Europe Through Mobility”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 56 (April), 23-45. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-56-2017pp23-45.
Issue
No. 56 (2017): Governing Mobility in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Section
Monographic Articles

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