Research Catalog

Title

Town twinning, transnational connections, and trans-local citizenship practices in Europe / Andreas Langenohl.

Author

Langenohl, Andreas, 1970-

Publication

Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description

viii, 249 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

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 fostered. Yet what does twinning entail for those engaged in it on a local level? How does transnationalism enter local settings? Andreas Langenohl argues that the transnationalism of town twinning in Europe rests on practices of localization assembled around an ethics of exchange, encompassing codes of hospitality, notions of friendship, and reciprocity in giving and receiving. Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with twinning practitioners, the book argues that the kind of European integration achieved through town twinning resembles a model of European integration that establishes 'exchange' and 'market' as a generalized model of cooperation.

Series Statement

Europe in a global context

Uniform Title

Europe in a global context.

Subject

• Cities and towns > Europe
• Sister cities
• Urban policy > Europe
• Community development > Europe
• Transnationalism
• Nationalism > Europe
• Regional planning > Europe
• Cities and towns
• Community development
• Nationalism
• Regional planning
• Sister cities
• Transnationalism
• Urban policy
• Globalization > Europe
• Human geography > Europe
• POLITICAL SCIENCE > Regional Planning
• Society
• Urban communities > Europe
• Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781137021229 (hardback)
• 1137021225 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2014036786

OCLC

890622108

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library