Social Transnationalism: Lifeworlds Beyond the Nation-State

ISBN-13: 9780415534246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Steffen Mau

Opis

This study explores individual cross-border interactions and mobility which have expanded across physical space. It also investigates whether increases in the volume of transnational interactions weaken the individual citizen's bond to the nation-state and to what extent national identities are replaced by cosmopolitan ones.

Spis treści

Part 1: From National Containers to Transnational Social Spaces  Part 2: The Cartography of Transnational Social Relations  Part 3: Transnationalism and the New Cosmopolitanism  Part 4: Unequal Transnationalism  Part 5: Conclusion

O autorze

Steffen Mau is currently Professor of Political Sociology and Comparative Social Research, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University Bremen.