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

A study in the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communicationDuring the past decades, humanity has become more transnationally active. Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnationa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Deutschmann, Emanuel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Transnationalism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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, Levy 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

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