Product details
- Categories: Governance & Politics, Internal Market
- Publisher: PALGRAVE-MACMILLAN
- ISBN: 9780230241688
- Publication Date: 21/06/2011
- Binding: Hardback
- Number of pages: 288
- Language: English
Summary
Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration within or into the EU, and Europeanized forms of political debate or activism. How significant are such transnational connections for European integration, and how do they relate to broader societal transformations in the EU and its member states? This interdisciplinary volume examines the multifaceted contours of transnationalism in Europe, probing their importance for EU and member-state governance, political mobilization, social inclusion and exclusion and collective identities. It demonstrates that the concept of transnationalism provides a valuable analytical framework for studying European politics and societies, and makes a case for incorporating the concept more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies.
Table of contents
Introduction; A.Hurrelmann & J.DeBardeleben
PART I TRANSNATIONALISM IN EUROPEAN STUDIES: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
Transnationalism and the Theory of European Integration: Political Science Perspectives; A.Hurrelmann
Transnationalism and the Political Sociology of European Transformation: Bringing People Back In; C.Rumford
PART II TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE: POLICY MAKING AND INTEREST MOBILIZATION
Transnationalism in European Governance and Policy Making; I.Tömmel
The Emergence of a Public Sphere for the European Union: Prospects for
Transnationalism through Mass Media Communication?; P.Statham
Protest in the EU: a Path toward Democracy?; D.Chabanet
European Integration and Transnational Labor Markets; N.Lillie
East European Transformations and the Paradoxes of Transnationalization; D.Bohle
PART III TRANSNATIONAL SPACES, COMMUNITIES, AND IDENTITIES
Historicizing the Nation: Transnational Approaches to the Recent European Past; J.Casteel
Integrating Migrants beyond the Nation-State? The Paradoxical Effects of Including
Newcomers in a European Social and Cultural Community; O.Schmidtke
Managing Ambivalence and Identity: Immigration Discourses and (Trans-)National
Identities in the European Union; R.Gould
Muslim Migration, Institutional Development, and the Geographic Imagination:
the Aga Khan Development Network's Global Transnationalism; K.H.Karim
The Social Lives of Borders: Political Economy at the Edge of the EU; A.Simonyi & J.Allina-Pisano
The Awkward Divide: Paradoxes of Transnationality at the Polish–Ukrainian Border; K.Szmagalska-Follis
Conclusion; J.DeBardeleben & A.Hurrelmann