Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond

   1. Introduction: Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond

      • Armando Salvatore, Oliver Schmidtke, Hans-Jörg Trenz

      Pages 1-24

3. Rethinking the Public Sphere: Beyond the National Arena?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Struggling with the Concept of a Public Sphere

      • Klaus Eder

      Pages 27-55

   3. The Counterfactual Imagination Punctuated by Triple Contingency: On Klaus Eder’s Theory of the New Public Sphere

      • Piet Strydom

      Pages 56-74

   4. Ambivalent Representations and Fragile Boundaries: Heroes, Victims, Perpetrators

      • Bernhard Giesen

      Pages 75-90

   5. Beyond the Political Mythology of the Westphalian Order? Religion, Communicative Action, and the Transnationalization of the Public Sphere

      • Armando Salvatore

      Pages 91-106

   6. Social Movements and the Public Sphere

      • Donatella della Porta

      Pages 107-133

4. Between European Citizenship and Transnational Collective Identities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Europe’s Missing Public: Problems and Prospects

      • Paul Statham, Ruud Koopmans

      Pages 137-151

   3. Toward Pan-European Contentions? European Integration and Its Effects on Political Mobilization

      • Christian Lahusen

      Pages 152-167

   4. Toward an Anthropology of the European Union: Insights from Greece

      • Anna Triandafyllidou, Hara Kouki, Ruby Gropas

      Pages 168-186

   5. Climate Change as a Rhetorical Resource and Masterframe: An Analysis of the Daily Press Coverage and Public Opinion in Italy

      • Lorenzo Beltrame, Massimiano Bucchi, Barbara Mattè

      Pages 187-207

5. Inclusion and Exclusion: Addressing the Cultural Other in Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Differentiation of Migration Patterns in Europe: Social Integration Amidst Competing Societal Leitbilder of Enclosure of the ‘Other’, Acceptance, and Encouragement of Migration

      • Roland Verwiebe, Laura Wiesböck, Roland Teitzer

      Pages 211-232

   3. The ‘New Germany’ and Its Transformation Process: Narrating Collective Identity in Times of Transnational Mobility

      • Naika Foroutan

      Pages 233-250

   4. Jews and Turks in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Representation, and Minority Rights

      • Gökçe Yurdakul

      Pages 251-268

   5. Toward a Cosmopolitan and Inclusive European Identity? Negotiating Immigrants’ Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Europe

      • Oliver Schmidtke

      Pages 269-287

6. Back Matter

   Pages 288-296

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This book discusses the extent to which the theoretical relevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected by current processes of transnationalization. The contributions address fundamental questions concerning the viability of a socially and politically effective public sphere in a post-Westphalian world.

• anthropology
• climate change
• European identity
• European Integration
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• identity
• Integration
• migration
• Nation
• public opinion
• religion
• transformation
• Transnational
• transnationalization
• european union politics

• University of Naples “L’ Orientale”, Italy

  Armando Salvatore

• University of Victoria, Canada

  Oliver Schmidtke

• University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Hans-Jörg Trenz

Lorenzo Beltrame, University of Trento, Italy Massimiano Bucchi, University of Trento, Italy Donatella Della Porta, European University Institute, Italy Klaus Eder, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Naika Foroutan, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Bernhard Giesen, University of Konstanz, Germany Ruby Gropas, Democritus University of Thrace and Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece Ruud Koopmans, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Netherlands and Germany Hara Kouki, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Italy Christian Lahusen, Siegen University, Germany Barbara Mattè, Univeristy of Trento, Italy Paul Statham, University of Sussex, UK Piet Strydom, a retired member of the School of Sociology and Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland Roland Teitzer, University Vienna, Austria Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Italy Roland Verwiebe, University of Vienna, Austria Laura Wiesböck, University of Vienna, Austria Gökçe Yurdakul, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

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