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Title

Transnational professionals and their cosmopolitan universes / Magdalena Nowicka ; foreword by Ulrich Beck.

Author

Nowicka, Magdalena.

Publication

Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, c2006.

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Description

280 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This book focuses on the relationship between physical space and mobility and on the new phenomenon of the "international professional" who makes the world his home. Mobile people, Magdalena Nowicka reveals, create their own spatial and cultural universes through daily routines and practices. Even the choice of a specific residence, Nowicka shows, has definite local and global consequences. Grounded in the influential theories of Ulrich Beck as well as the latest research in the sociology of space, the book is an important contribution to continuing debates on globalization and sociology."--Jacket.

Subject

• Cosmopolitanism
• Cosmopolitisme
• Globalization > Social aspects
• Horizontale mobiliteit
• Internationalisatie
• Labor mobility
• Main-d'œuvre > Mobilité
• Mondialisation > Aspect social
• Professional employees
• Professionnels salariés
• Transnationalism
• Transnationalisme
• Wereldburgerschap
• Werknemers

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität München, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-263).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mobility and space in modernity -- Mobility in the age of globalization -- Towards the modern universes -- Mobility beyond the nations -- Mobile professionals and their life-projects -- Spatial relations reconsidered -- Mobilization and disembedding processes -- Placing -- Spacing.

ISBN

• 9783593381558 (pbk.)
• 3593381559 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library