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Czech Europe as a proximon: The case of recovery of education through digitalization

Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2023

Abstract

From 2020 onwards, the European Union intends to recover Europe as a political and social region, including national economies, after the covid pandemic, by making Europe more digital, greener and more resilient. But what does "the European Union intends" mean? Some materializations are found in the documents that establish, defend and plan this intention in form of certain socio-technical imaginaries (Jasanoff and Kim 2015).

However, due to the fact that, in addition to the plan, the European Union also launched financial incentives worth "EUR723.8 billion in loans" (European Commission n.d.), which can be used by national governments, the materialization of that plan is moving into interesting spheres and scales. Despite all the diagnoses of post-nationalism, post-geography and post-statism, familiar dimensions and measures are rather reproduced in these incentives - the governments (states) of national-political states (political geography) are responsible for funding.

But is this the whole reality that is being created around this renewal of Europe? The presented research began as an effort to give sociological meaning to a question both about Europe and the Czech educational space, which would not be locked in administrative thinking.