Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe : Expert Knowledge and Scientific Planning in European Regional Development

ISBN-13: 9780415678759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Sebastian Buttner

Opis

Based upon analytical premises of Stanford School sociological institutionalism, Sebastian M. Buttner studies regional mobilisation in contemporary Europe from a new and innovative perspective."

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. A Critical Introduction to World-Polity Research  3. Outline of a Phenomenology of Late Modernity  4. A Phenomenology of the Rise of a ‘New Regionalism’  5. The European Script of Regional Mobilization  6. Region-Building and Regional Mobilization in Poland  7. The World-Cultural Make-Up of Polish regions  8. Strategizing all the Way Down: Traces of ‘Standardized Diversification’  9. Conclusions: The Spirit and the Limits of World-Cultural Mobilization.  Appendix

O autorze

Sebastian M. Büttner is Lecturer in Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include sociology of knowledge and culture, theory of modernity, transnationalization and regionalization in contemporary Europe, theories and practice of social government and social mobilization.