Town Twinning, Transnational Connections, and Trans-local Citizenship Practices in Europe [electronic resource] /
Langenohl, A.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Local Transnationalism in a 'Europe for Citizens'; 2 European Visions: On the Political Historiography of Town Twinning; 3 Small-town Transnationals: The (Trans-)locality of Town Twinning; 4 Making Towns Meet: The Social Logics of (Trans-)local Encounters; 5 Trans-local Friendships: The Microstructures of Twinning Sociability; 6 Organizing (Civic) Culture: The Making of Europeans; 7 (Trans-)local Economies: Imaginary Understandings of Europe; 8 Aesthetic and Cultural Idioms of Difference in Town Twinning
9 Conclusion: Town Twinning and the Ethics of ExchangeNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Ethnology—Europe.
Human geography.
Sociology.
Political sociology.
Globalization.
Area studies.
European Culture.
Human Geography.
Sociology, general.
Political Sociology.
Globalization.
Area Studies.