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Town Twinning, Transnational Connections, and Trans-Local Citizenship Practices in Europe
Andreas Langenohl
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Description for Town Twinning, Transnational Connections, and Trans-Local Citizenship Practices in Europe
Paperback. Many Europeans think that town twinning has greatly contributed to integration in Europe after the Second World War. This book, based on observations and interviews with twinning practitioners in small towns, reveals the social and cultural processes that inform twinning as a transnational practice, its perspectives and its limits. Series: Europe in a Global Context. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFC; JFFS; JHB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Many Europeans think that town twinning has greatly contributed to integration in Europe after the Second World War. This book, based on observations and interviews with twinning practitioners in small towns, reveals the social and cultural processes that inform twinning as a transnational practice, its perspectives and its limits.
Many Europeans think that town twinning has greatly contributed to integration in Europe after the Second World War. This book, based on observations and interviews with twinning practitioners in small towns, reveals the social and cultural processes that inform twinning as a transnational practice, its perspectives and its limits.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
Series
Europe in a Global Context
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349437658
SKU
V9781349437658
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Ref
99-15
About Andreas Langenohl
Andreas Langenohl is Professor of Sociology at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. His research and teaching interests encompass modernization theory and it critique, notions of the public sphere, transnationalism, social studies of finance and the epistemology of the social sciences.
Reviews for Town Twinning, Transnational Connections, and Trans-Local Citizenship Practices in Europe
“The book will be useful for scholars and students particularly searching for an overview of town-twinning practices, but also for readers interested in how social processes are intertwined with the political, economic and cultural project of European integration. It is an empirically rich and theoretically dense read, reaching across different disciplinary fields of sociology, anthropology and political science.” (Ines Wagner, ... Read more