DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2011400209        (PDF )

Naslov/Title
Following european stories. An anthropological study of european integration

Avtorica/Author
Tatiana Bajuk Senčar and Jeffrey David Turk

Izvleček
Minilo je sedem let, odkar imajo Slovenci priložnost, da se kot evrokrati zaposljujejo v institucijah Evropske unije. Do katere mere lahko življenjske zgodbe oz. biografski narativni intervjuji služijo kot učinkovito analitično orodje pri raziskavah prve generacije slovenskih evrokratov? Kaj nam lahko takšne pripovedi povedo o podobi sodobnih evropskih integracijskih procesov? V pričujočem prispevku avtorja razbirata osrednja teoretska in metodološka vprašanja, s katerimi se spoprimejo raziskovalci, ki preučujejo integracijo kot družbeni pojav.

Abstract
Seven years have passed since Slovenians have been granted the opportunity to take on posts within the EU institutions as Slovenian EU officials or Slovenian Eurocrats. How can life stories or biographical narratives aid in reseach focused on this first generation of Slovenian Eurocrats? What can they tells us about the shape of contemporary European integration processes? The authors in the following pages will identify the key theoretical and methodological issues that researchers face when engaging integration as a social phenomenon.

Ključne besede
Evropska unija, evrokrati, birokracija, Slovenia

Keywords
European Union, Eurocrats, bureaucracy, Slovenia

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