Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xvi, 296 pp.
Contains graph. Darst.
Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
ISBN 978-1-137-28320-7 (ebook); 978-1-349-44894-4 (print)
"This book discusses the extent to which the theoretical relevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected (or undermined) 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. To what degree are the theoretical presuppositions regarding the critical function and democratic quality of public deliberation still valid in contemporary societies that adhere decreasingly to the Westphalian logic of closed national political communities and modes of communication? Under what conditions is the critical impetus of the public sphere still applicable in a world that, in Europe and beyond, is increasingly responding to processes of trans-border interaction and communication?" (Publisher description)
Introduction: Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond / Armando Salvatore, Oliver Schmidtke, and Hans-Jörg Trenz, 1
PART I: RETHINKING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: BEYOND THE NATIONAL ARENA?
1 Struggling with the Concept of a Public Sphere / Klaus Eder, 27
2 The Counterfactual Imagination Punctuated by Triple Contingency: On Klaus Eder's Theory of the New Public Sphere / Piet Strydom, 56
3 Ambivalent Representations and Fragile Boundaries: Heroes, Victims, Perpetrators / Bernhard Giesen, 75
4 Beyond the Political Mythology of the Westphalian Order? Religion, Communicative Action, and the Transnationalization of the Public Sphere / Armando Salvatore, 91
5 Social Movements and the Public Sphere / Donatella della Porta, 107
PART II: BETWEEN EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP AND TRANSNATIONAL COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES
6 Europe's Missing Public: Problems and Prospects / Paul Statham and Ruud Koopmans, 137
7 Toward Pan-European Contentions? European Integration and Its Effects on Political Mobilization / Christian Lahusen, 152
8 Toward an Anthropology of the European Union: Insights from Greece / Anna Triandafyllidou, Hara Kouki, and Ruby Gropas, 168
9 Climate Change as a Rhetorical Resource and Masterframe: An Analysis of the Daily Press Coverage and Public Opinion in Italy / Lorenzo Beltrame, Massimiano Bucchi, and Barbara Mattè, 187
PART III: INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION: ADDRESSING THE CULTURAL OTHER IN EUROPE
10 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, and Roland Teitzer, 211
11 The 'New Germany' and Its Transformation Process: Narrating Collective Identity in Times of Transnational Mobility / Naika Foroutan, 233
12 Jews and Turks in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Representation, and Minority Rights / Gökçe Yurdakul, 251
13 Toward a Cosmopolitan and Inclusive European Identity? Negotiating Immigrants' Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Europe / Oliver Schmidtke, 269
PART I: RETHINKING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: BEYOND THE NATIONAL ARENA?
1 Struggling with the Concept of a Public Sphere / Klaus Eder, 27
2 The Counterfactual Imagination Punctuated by Triple Contingency: On Klaus Eder's Theory of the New Public Sphere / Piet Strydom, 56
3 Ambivalent Representations and Fragile Boundaries: Heroes, Victims, Perpetrators / Bernhard Giesen, 75
4 Beyond the Political Mythology of the Westphalian Order? Religion, Communicative Action, and the Transnationalization of the Public Sphere / Armando Salvatore, 91
5 Social Movements and the Public Sphere / Donatella della Porta, 107
PART II: BETWEEN EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP AND TRANSNATIONAL COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES
6 Europe's Missing Public: Problems and Prospects / Paul Statham and Ruud Koopmans, 137
7 Toward Pan-European Contentions? European Integration and Its Effects on Political Mobilization / Christian Lahusen, 152
8 Toward an Anthropology of the European Union: Insights from Greece / Anna Triandafyllidou, Hara Kouki, and Ruby Gropas, 168
9 Climate Change as a Rhetorical Resource and Masterframe: An Analysis of the Daily Press Coverage and Public Opinion in Italy / Lorenzo Beltrame, Massimiano Bucchi, and Barbara Mattè, 187
PART III: INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION: ADDRESSING THE CULTURAL OTHER IN EUROPE
10 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, and Roland Teitzer, 211
11 The 'New Germany' and Its Transformation Process: Narrating Collective Identity in Times of Transnational Mobility / Naika Foroutan, 233
12 Jews and Turks in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Representation, and Minority Rights / Gökçe Yurdakul, 251
13 Toward a Cosmopolitan and Inclusive European Identity? Negotiating Immigrants' Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Europe / Oliver Schmidtke, 269
