Mapping the Transnational World (eBook)

How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters

Emanuel Deutschmann (Autor)

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2022
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22650-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communicationIncreasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it really a fully globalized world in which everything is linked, as popular catchphrases like "e;global village"e; suggest? Through a sweeping comparative analysis of eight types of mobility and communication among countries worldwide-from migration and tourism to Facebook friendships and phone calls-Mapping the Transnational World demonstrates that our behavior is actually regionalized, not globalized.Emanuel Deutschmann shows that transnational activity within world regions is not so much the outcome of political, cultural, or economic factors, but is driven primarily by geographic distance. He explains that the spatial structure of transnational human activity follows a simple mathematical function, the power law, a pattern that also fits the movements of many other animal species on the planet. Moreover, this pattern remained extremely stable during the five decades studied-1960 to 2010. Unveiling proximity-induced regionalism as a major feature of planet-scale networks of transnational human activity, Deutschmann provides a crucial corrective to several fields of research.Revealing why a truly global society is unlikely to emerge, Mapping the Transnational World highlights the essential role of interaction beyond borders on a planet that remains spatially fragmented.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.1.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology
• Zusatzinfo: 5 color + 29 b/w illus. 16 tables. 3 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: analytical sociology • Anthropocentrism • border • Border Control • Border Region • Capitalism • Case study • Central America • Central Asia • city-state • Civilization • clustering coefficient • Comparative Advantage • Comparative Research • Comparative Sociology • comparative study • Conceptualization (information science) • Consumerism • Contact hypothesis • Cosmopolitanism • critical geography • Currency • Dynamic density • Economic Union • Epistemology • European Commission • European Integration • Explanation • explanatory power • Finding • Fortress Europe • Global Citizenship • Global Governance • Globalism • Globalization • global justice movement • Historical region • human behavior • Human capital flight • Illustration • Imagery • Instance (computer science) • Institution • Intergovernmental Organization • International communication • International Community • International Networks (country code) • International Organization • International Relations • International Social Survey Programme • International Trade • Latin America • Level of Analysis • Make a Difference • Map Projection • Marxism • MERCOSUR • Migration Studies • Modernization Theory • nation state • Naturalization • North America • Oceania • organization • phenomenon • Political Science • power law • Product market • Quantity • Refugee • Regional Integration • remittance • Search Engine Optimization • Social constructionism • Social integration • social relation • Social Research • Social Science • Social Theory • Society • Sociology • Southeast Asia • spatial scale • statista • structural pattern • Technology • theory • Tourism • Transdisciplinarity • Transnational governance • transnationalism • travel agency • Universalization • Urban sociology • workspace • World Polity Theory • World Population • World-System • World-Systems Theory • World Tourism Organization
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22650-4 / 0691226504
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22650-7 / 9780691226507