Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781137283191 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 296 str.

Armando Salvatore; Oliver Schmidtke; Hans-Jorg Trenz

Opis

This book discusses the extent to which the theoretical relevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected by current processes of transnationalization. The contributions address fundamental questions concerning the viability of a socially and politically effective public sphere in a post-Westphalian world.

Spis treści

PART I: RETHINKING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: BEYOND THE NATIONAL ARENA? 1. Struggling with the Concept of a Public Sphere; Klaus Eder 2. The Counterfactual Imagination Punctuated by Triple Contingency: On Klaus Eder's Theory of the New Public Sphere; Piet Strydom 3. Ambivalent Representations of Collective Identity: Heroes, Victims, Perpetrators; Bernhard Giesen 4. Beyond the Political Mythology of the Westphalian World Order: Religion, Communicative Action, and the Transnationalization of the Public Sphere; Armando Salvatore 5. Social Movements and the Public Sphere; Donatella della Porta PART II: BETWEEN EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP AND TRANSNATIONAL COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES 6. Europe's Search for an Attentive Public: Evidence, Prospects, and Prognoses; Paul Statham and Ruud Koopmans 7. Towards Pan-European Contentions? European Integration and its Effects on Political Mobilization; Christian Lahusen 8. Towards an Anthropology of the European Union. Insights from Greece; Anna Triandafyllidou, Hara Kouki, and Ruby Gropas 9. Climate Change as a Rhetorical Resource and Masterframe. An Analysis of the Daily Press Coverage and Public Opinion in Italy; Lorenzo Beltrame, Massimiano Bucchi, Barbara Mattè PART III: INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION: ADDRESSING THE CULTURAL OTHER IN EUROPE 10. Differentiation of Migration Patterns in Europe. Social Integration Amidst Competing Societal Leitbilder of Enclosure of the Other, Acceptance and Encouragement of Migration; Roland Verwiebe, Laura Wiesböck, and Roland Teitzer 11. The 'New Germany' and Its Transformation Process: Narrating Collective Identity in Times of Transnational Mobilit; Naika Foroutan 12. Jews and Turks in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Representation, and Minority Rights; Gökçe Yurdakul 13. Towards a Cosmopolitan and Inclusive European Identity? Negotiating Immigrants' Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Europe; Oliver Schmidtke

O autorze

Lorenzo Beltrame, University of Trento, Italy Massimiano Bucchi, University of Trento, Italy Donatella Della Porta, European University Institute, Italy Klaus Eder, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Naika Foroutan, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Bernhard Giesen, University of Konstanz, Germany Ruby Gropas, Democritus University of Thrace and Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece Ruud Koopmans, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Netherlands and Germany Hara Kouki, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Italy Christian Lahusen, Siegen University, Germany Barbara Mattè, Univeristy of Trento, Italy Paul Statham, University of Sussex, UK Piet Strydom, a retired member of the School of Sociology and Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland Roland Teitzer, University Vienna, Austria Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Italy Roland Verwiebe, University of Vienna, Austria Laura Wiesböck, University of Vienna, Austria Gökçe Yurdakul, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany