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Mapping the Transnational World : How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deutschmann, Emanuel
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Series:Princeton studies in global and comparative sociology.
Subjects:
Transnationalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Entering the Transnational World
  • Scope and Main Argument
  • Bringing the Regional Scale In
  • Outline of the Book
  • What May Be Gained?
  • 2. Four Paths toward a Comparative Sociology of Regional Integration
  • Coming from Below: The Burst of the National Container
  • Transnationalism-a Local Phenomenon?
  • Transnationalism-a Global Phenomenon?
  • The Missing Closure Dimension of "Transnational"
  • Coming from Above: The Granfalloon of World Society
  • Wallerstein's World-System
  • Meyer's World Polity
  • Luhmann's World Society
  • Inside a Granfalloon: Uncovering the Internal Structure of World Society
  • Coming from Europe: The Particularism of "Europeanization"
  • Europe-Concept or Case?
  • "Europeanization" as "Regionalization in Europe"
  • Toward a Comparative-Universalist Alternative
  • Learning from the Limitations of the Sociology of Europe
  • Coming from Politics: The Beacon of Comparative Regionalism
  • Early Comparative Approaches to Regionalism in Political Science
  • The Latest Wave of Comparative Regionalism in Political Science
  • Is There Really No Sociological Equivalent?
  • The Missing Fourth Leg of the Elephant
  • 3. The Regionalized Structure of Transnational Human Activity, 1960-2010
  • An Increasingly Interconnected World?
  • The Transnational World as a Square
  • Comparing Regionalism across Time, Regions, and Activity Types
  • Absolute Regionalization
  • Absolute Globalization
  • Relative Regionalization
  • Relative Globalization
  • Results for Alternative Constellations of Regions
  • Letting the Algorithm Speak
  • Summary and Discussion
  • Color Plates
  • 4. Why Does Regionalism Occur in Transnational Human Activity?
  • Culture, Politics, Economics, or Geography
  • Cultural and Historical Factors
  • Economic and Technological Factors
  • Political and Legal Factors
  • Geographic and Control Factors
  • Toward a Comprehensive Explanatory Model
  • Why Regionalism Occurs in Transnational Human Activity
  • Differences between Activity Types
  • Differences between World Regions
  • Summary and Discussion
  • 5. The Spatial Structure of Transnational Human Activity
  • Sharks, LeÌ?vy Flights, and Power-Laws
  • Death of Distance? Distance Decay?
  • A Comparative Theory of Transnational Human Activity's Spatial Structure
  • The Current Spatial Structure of Transnational Human Activity
  • Developments Over Time
  • Comparing Motion Patterns across Species and Scales
  • One-Dimensional Analysis: The Ostensible Mean-Clustering
  • Two-Dimensional Analysis: The Meta-Power-Law of Mobility
  • Summary and Discussion
  • 6. Lessons: Mobilization, Not Globalization
  • Implications
  • A Specification of the Meaning of "Transnational"
  • The Limited Influence of the Economic World-System's Core-Periphery Structure
  • The Persistence of Segmentary Differentiation in World Society