Europeanization in Debate: Media, Politics and Public Opinion in Portugal

From a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, this book mobilises the concepts of discourse, framing, and Europeanisation to analyse the dominant narratives about the European Union (EU) in Portugal, and how these are discursively constructed and negotiated. Focusing on media representations, t...

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Main Authors: Raquel Freire, Maria, José Santos, Sofia, Assis Crivelente, Moara, Almeida Bezerra, Luiza
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description From a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, this book mobilises the concepts of discourse, framing, and Europeanisation to analyse the dominant narratives about the European Union (EU) in Portugal, and how these are discursively constructed and negotiated. Focusing on media representations, this study uses their triangulation with the vision of political and media elites and public opinion, showing that the debate on Portugal’s integration into the EU and its “Europeanisation” is essentially characterised by pragmatic perspectives, formulated in terms of advantages and disadvantages, and populated by centre/periphery conceptions. The book concludes that a dualism exists across the three discursive spheres analysed: despite the dynamics of peripheralisation still being evident in the country, representations of the EU merge with a national ambition and interest in belonging to the “centre of progress,” echoing and validating what the book paraphrases as a “pragmatic imagination of the centre”.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1699462025-12-05T10:51:22Z Europeanization in Debate: Media, Politics and Public Opinion in Portugal Raquel Freire, Maria José Santos, Sofia Assis Crivelente, Moara Almeida Bezerra, Luiza Europeanization media elites public opinion Portugal thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences From a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, this book mobilises the concepts of discourse, framing, and Europeanisation to analyse the dominant narratives about the European Union (EU) in Portugal, and how these are discursively constructed and negotiated. Focusing on media representations, this study uses their triangulation with the vision of political and media elites and public opinion, showing that the debate on Portugal’s integration into the EU and its “Europeanisation” is essentially characterised by pragmatic perspectives, formulated in terms of advantages and disadvantages, and populated by centre/periphery conceptions. The book concludes that a dualism exists across the three discursive spheres analysed: despite the dynamics of peripheralisation still being evident in the country, representations of the EU merge with a national ambition and interest in belonging to the “centre of progress,” echoing and validating what the book paraphrases as a “pragmatic imagination of the centre”. Published Numa perspetiva crítica e interdisciplinar, este livro mobiliza os conceitos de discurso, enquadramento e europeização para analisar as narrativas dominantes sobre a União Europeia (UE) em Portugal e a forma como estas são discursivamente construídas e negociadas. Centrando-se nas representações dos meios de comunicação social, este estudo utiliza a sua triangulação com a visão das elites políticas e mediáticas e da opinião pública, mostrando que o debate sobre a integração de Portugal na UE e a sua «europeização» é essencialmente caracterizado por perspetivas pragmáticas, formuladas em termos de vantagens e desvantagens, e povoadas por conceções de centro/periferia. O livro conclui que existe um dualismo nas três esferas discursivas analisadas: apesar de a dinâmica de periferalização ainda ser evidente no país, as representações da UE fundem-se com uma ambição nacional e um interesse em pertencer ao «centro do progresso», ecoando e validando o que o livro parafraseia como uma «imaginação pragmática do centro». 2025-12-05T10:51:18Z 2025-12-05T10:51:18Z 2025-12 book 978-989-26-2754-0 978-989-26-2755-7 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169946 eng Investigação image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2755-7 Coimbra University Press Coimbra University Press 10.14195/978-989-26-2755-7 Numa perspetiva crítica e interdisciplinar, este livro mobiliza os conceitos de discurso, enquadramento e europeização para analisar as narrativas dominantes sobre a União Europeia (UE) em Portugal e a forma como estas são discursivamente construídas e negociadas. Centrando-se nas representações dos meios de comunicação social, este estudo utiliza a sua triangulação com a visão das elites políticas e mediáticas e da opinião pública, mostrando que o debate sobre a integração de Portugal na UE e a sua «europeização» é essencialmente caracterizado por perspetivas pragmáticas, formuladas em termos de vantagens e desvantagens, e povoadas por conceções de centro/periferia. O livro conclui que existe um dualismo nas três esferas discursivas analisadas: apesar de a dinâmica de periferalização ainda ser evidente no país, as representações da UE fundem-se com uma ambição nacional e um interesse em pertencer ao «centro do progresso», ecoando e validando o que o livro parafraseia como uma «imaginação pragmática do centro». 10.14195/978-989-26-2755-7 71c193a7-6c08-4e85-ae72-a002208589fd 978-989-26-2754-0 978-989-26-2755-7 Coimbra University Press 342 Coimbra open access
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Assis Crivelente, Moara
Almeida Bezerra, Luiza
Europeanization in Debate: Media, Politics and Public Opinion in Portugal
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public opinion
Portugal
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