Is EU Cross-border Cooperation Ethical? Reading Cross-border Cooperation Through the 'Needs for Roots' by Simone Weil

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ID3948191
AuthorsElisabetta Nadalutti (0000-0003-4503-061X, University of Luxembourg, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume20
Issue3
Pages485-512
Publication date2015-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2015.1016155
OpenAlexW2005058267
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited8

This article applies Simone Weil’s philosophical concept of ‘uprootedness’ and the ‘14 needs of the soul’, set out in her 1943 book ‘The Need for Roots’, to the empirical case study of the border ‘Italy-Slovenia’ considered within Programme 2007–2013. A multi-dimensional qualitative approach that relies on an extensive literature, consultation of primary sources and semi-structured interviews carried out between October 2013 and February 2014 has been adopted. The article questions why does cross-border-cooperation often fail to develop an ‘integrated’ border territory and a cohesive ‘moral’ community? Conversely, why does social fragmentation emerge from cross-border-cooperation? It is argued that while the EU (Commission) has focused on initiatives and projects in order to achieve regional, economic border integration, it has instead failed to develop an ‘ethical framework’ for promoting a ‘rooted’ integrated borderland and a cohesive moral community

Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Soul · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies

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