Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood

Since its inception, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has incorporated a local lens in its engagement with Southern partners. However, the capacity of local authorities to enact the political autonomy expected by the European Union (EU) is distant from reality. The article mobilizes the conce...

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Authors: Rivera Escartin, Adrià, Fernández, Fátima
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2024
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repository:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/151615
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10609/151615
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13708
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:European Neighbourhood Policy
hegemonic narratives
local government
Morocco
Tunisia
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spelling Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern NeighbourhoodRivera Escartin, AdriàFernández, FátimaEuropean Neighbourhood Policyhegemonic narrativeslocal governmentMoroccoTunisiaSince its inception, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has incorporated a local lens in its engagement with Southern partners. However, the capacity of local authorities to enact the political autonomy expected by the European Union (EU) is distant from reality. The article mobilizes the concept of hegemonic narratives in the cases of Morocco and Tunisia to problematize the set of discourses that establish the common understanding of ‘the local’ in the ENP's territorial agenda. We present three narratives that became hegemonic across ENP implementation: ‘the local’ as an agent of development, ‘the local’ as an agent of democratization and ‘the local’ as a provider of resilience. The evidence presented allows us to conclude that ‘the local’ acts as an empty signifier in the EU's territorial agenda in its Southern Neighbourhood. Whilst these narratives have certainly served centralizing trends, they have also been mobilized by or in support of emerging actors that contest them.Wiley202420242024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10609/151615https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13708reponame:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOCinstname:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)InglésJournal of Common Market Studieshttps://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13708CC BY-NChttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/1516152026-05-28T12:42:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood
title Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood
spellingShingle Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood
Rivera Escartin, Adrià
European Neighbourhood Policy
hegemonic narratives
local government
Morocco
Tunisia
title_short Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood
title_full Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood
title_fullStr Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood
title_full_unstemmed Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood
title_sort Recalibrating the Local Lens: Drivers and Transformations of the European Union's Territorial Agenda in the Southern Neighbourhood
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rivera Escartin, Adrià
Fernández, Fátima
author Rivera Escartin, Adrià
author_facet Rivera Escartin, Adrià
Fernández, Fátima
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author2 Fernández, Fátima
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv European Neighbourhood Policy
hegemonic narratives
local government
Morocco
Tunisia
topic European Neighbourhood Policy
hegemonic narratives
local government
Morocco
Tunisia
description Since its inception, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has incorporated a local lens in its engagement with Southern partners. However, the capacity of local authorities to enact the political autonomy expected by the European Union (EU) is distant from reality. The article mobilizes the concept of hegemonic narratives in the cases of Morocco and Tunisia to problematize the set of discourses that establish the common understanding of ‘the local’ in the ENP's territorial agenda. We present three narratives that became hegemonic across ENP implementation: ‘the local’ as an agent of development, ‘the local’ as an agent of democratization and ‘the local’ as a provider of resilience. The evidence presented allows us to conclude that ‘the local’ acts as an empty signifier in the EU's territorial agenda in its Southern Neighbourhood. Whilst these narratives have certainly served centralizing trends, they have also been mobilized by or in support of emerging actors that contest them.
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