The author in her paper presents a critical theoretical analysis of existing anthropological research concerning the question of identity within the European institutions in an enlarged European Union. Discussion is centered on the historical role of nationality as a component of identity among Eurocrats as well as the relevance of East and West as markers of identity within the EU institutions after the accession of 10 new, post-socialist member states.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31211565
This article contributes to the methodological debate in green economics. Methodologically speaking mainstream economics has insufficient traction in the world, meaning that its data are not sufficiently grounded to ensure the effective comparison of the model to the real world. Narrative approaches, such as the BNIM method, offer a sound methodological basis for researching economic and environmental issues as they actually play out in the real world. Such approaches are appropriate for studying how economic and environmental issues are implemented in European and international institutions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30081837
Science is a cultural achievement whose methods must be agreed upon in order for scientists to have a common basis for evaluating their own work and the work of others. Rather than deducing the rules of a given pre-existing objective scientific method, a practical basis for green economics as a form of narrative-grounded economics is proposed, which is based on the standard Biographic-Narrative Interpretive Method. This practical basis is useful in research in areas such as the human response to anthropogenic ecological change as channeled through European and international institutions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30443821