{"product_id":"european-objects-isbn-9780262543330","title":"European Objects","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow interventions based on objects—including chemicals, financial products, and consumer goods—offer a path to rethink European integration.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterventions based on objects, Brice Laurent claims, have become a dominant path for European policy-making. In \u003ci\u003eEuropean Objects,\u003c\/i\u003e Laurent analyzes the political consequences of these interventions and their democratization. He uses the term “European objects” to describe technical entities that are regulated—and thereby transformed—by European policies. To uncover the bureaucratic and regulatory intricacies of European governance, Laurent focuses on a series of these objects, including food products, chemicals, financial products, consumer goods, drinking water, and occupational environments. Laurent argues that taking European objects seriously offers a way to rephrase the dreams of harmonization and, eventually, rethink the constitutional strength of European integration.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLaurent doesn’t just clarify how European regulation works, but also explores ways to realize long-term objectives for European integration, such as a harmonized market or an objective expertise. Regulation is best understood as “regulatory machinery” bringing together various types of legal constraints, material interventions on objects, and the imagining of desirable futures. Analyzing European objects enables Laurent to explore what regulation has become after years of evolution have made it a central component of the European policy world. He offers practical illustrations of how the regulatory machinery functions today. If Europe succeeds at reinventing the terms of its legitimacy with objects that matter for the European publics, it will provide a telling demonstration that the opposition of expertise and populism is not the unavoidable fate of liberal democracies. Acknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e1 The Objects of Europe 1\u003cbr\u003e2 The Power to Disentangle 27\u003cbr\u003e3 Extending European Power 49\u003cbr\u003e4 Energy and the Problematics of Disentanglement 67\u003cbr\u003e5 In Search of European Objectivity 93\u003cbr\u003e6 Regulatory Precaution 115\u003cbr\u003e7 Governing with or Without Thresholds 139\u003cbr\u003e8 Stress Testing European Objects 161\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Objects that Matter 185\u003cbr\u003eNotes 205\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 241\u003cbr\u003eIndex 263“The true goal of European integration is the creation of European objects. Nothing is more important, or difficult. Laurent’s astute book lifts the veil on the forms of regulatory dexterity that underpin these amazing acts of fabrication.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJavier Lezaun, Associate Professor, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“In this tour de force of political analysis, Laurent elegantly demonstrates that the objects of European regulation are not mere bureaucratic constructs but are bearers of distinctive imaginaries of who is, and who ought to be, the ideal European subject.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSheila Jasanoff, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eEuropean objects are objects of European regulation—food, chemicals, and energy but also banks and nuclear power plants. In the twinned dreams of market-based and science-based harmonization, Brice Laurent forcefully engages the core tensions of European democracy.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDavid Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology, Columbia University \u003c\/b\u003eBrice Laurent \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis a researcher at Mines ParisTech, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. \u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302571036901,"sku":"NP9780262543330","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543330.jpg?v=1767726407","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/european-objects-isbn-9780262543330","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}