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This chapter studies the evolving relationship between the redistribution of social resources and the structuration of institutional spaces beyond the nation-state. The author first discusses general features of transnational fields and then moves to an examination of the European Parliament as an empirical case. In this perspective, the object of this approach, transnational social fields, form the social infrastructure of globalization processes. They are historical constructions, subjected to a double historicity: the development of the position of the scholar and the development of the objects that she tries to elucidate in relation to other objects. Transnational fields enable the scholar to highlight through controlled contextualization certain structural aspects that are crucial to the development of power resources and spaces that cross nation-state borders.
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Kauppi, N. (2018). Constructing Transnational Fields. In: Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71002-0_4
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