Town twinning, transnational connections and trans-local citizenship practices in Europe.
In 2010 the Council of European Regions and Municipalities established the number of European town twinning relationships as 39,816. 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 foster...
| Главный автор: | |
|---|---|
| Формат: | Ouvrage |
| Язык: | Anglais |
| Опубликовано: |
Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
|
| Серии: | Europe in a global context.
|
| Предметы: |
Оглавление:
- 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.