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Town twinning, transnational connections and trans-local citizenship practices in Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Langenohl, Andreas, 1970- (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Europe in a global context.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Europe.
Sister cities.
Urban policy > Europe.
Community development > Europe.
Transnationalism.
Nationalism > Europe.
Regional planning > Europe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: local transnationalism in a "Europe for citizens"
  • European visions: on the political historiography of town twinning
  • Small-town transnationals: the (trans-)locality of town twinning
  • Making towns meet: the social logics of (trans-)local encounters
  • Trans-local friendships: the microstructures of twinning sociability
  • Organizing (civic) culture: the making of Europeans
  • (Trans-)local economies: imaginary understandings of Europe
  • Aesthetic and cultural idioms of difference in town twinning
  • Conclusion: town twinning and the ethics of exchange.