Transnational Professionals and their Cosmopolitan Universes
Contributors: Ulrich Beck (Foreword)
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Published: December 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9783593381558
Subjects: Globalization; Human geography; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; Social Science / Sociology / General
Description: "This book focuses on the relationship between physical space and mobility and on the new phenomenon of the "international professional" who makes the world his home. Mobile people, Magdalena Nowicka reveals, create their own spatial and cultural universes through daily routines and practices. Even the choice of a specific residence, Nowicka shows, has definite local and global consequences. Grounded in the influential theories of Ulrich Beck as well as the latest research in the sociology of space, the book is an important contribution to continuing debates on globalization and sociology."--Jacket.