Neuerscheinung: Town Twinning, Transnational Connections, and Trans-local Citizenship Practices in Europe. Von Andreas Langenohl
30. April 2015
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
(Europe in a Global Context, 4)
Zitation
The European Commission has defined town twinning as one of the main pillars on which a 'Europe for Citizens' can be achieved and European identity be fostered. Yet what does twinning entail for those engaged in it on a local level? How does transnationalism enter local settings?
Andreas Langenohl argues that the transnationalism of town twinning in Europe rests on practices of localization assembled around an ethics of exchange, encompassing codes of hospitality, notions of friendship, and reciprocity in giving and receiving. Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with twinning practitioners, the book argues that the kind of European integration achieved through town twinning resembles a model of European integration that establishes 'exchange' and 'market' as a generalized model of cooperation. (Verlag)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Langenohl lehrt Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Allgemeiner Gesellschaftsvergleich an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Zwischen 2007 und 2010 war er Leiter der Forschungsgruppe „Idiome der Gesellschaftsanalyse“ am Exzellenzcluster „Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration“.
Das vorliegende Buch entstand während seiner Zeit als Fellow des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kollegs Konstanz 2013.