Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes Europe and Beyond

by Salvatore, Armando; Schmidtke, Oliver; Trenz, Hans-Jörg

• ISBN13: 9781137283191
• ISBN10: 113728319X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-07-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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?

Author Biography

Armando Salvatore is Professor of Sociology at University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy. He works interdisciplinarily and investigates various dimensions of religious traditions and secular formations in historical and comparative perspective and is currently researching sovereignty and solidarity at the Humboldt Center for Social and Political Research, Berlin.

 

Oliver Schmidtke is Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Victoria, Canada, where he also holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European History and Politics. He further serves as Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria.

Hans-Jörg Trenz is Professor of European Studies at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he coordinates CEMES, The Centre for Modern European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities. He is also adjunct Professor at ARENA, Center for European Studies at University of Oslo, Norway.

Table of Contents

PART I: RETHINKING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: BEYOND THE NATIONAL ARENA?
1. Struggling with the Concept of a Public Sphere; Klaus Eder
2. The Counterfactual Imagination Punctuated by Triple Contingency: On Klaus Eder's Theory of the New Public Sphere; Piet Strydom
3. Ambivalent Representations of Collective Identity: Heroes, Victims, Perpetrators; Bernhard Giesen
4. Beyond the Political Mythology of the Westphalian World Order: Religion, Communicative Action, and the Transnationalization of the Public Sphere; Armando Salvatore
5. Social Movements and the Public Sphere; Donatella della Porta
PART II: BETWEEN EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP AND TRANSNATIONAL COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES
6. Europe's Search for an Attentive Public: Evidence, Prospects, and Prognoses; Paul Statham and Ruud Koopmans
7. Towards Pan-European Contentions? European Integration and its Effects on Political Mobilization; Christian Lahusen
8. Towards an Anthropology of the European Union. Insights from Greece; Anna Triandafyllidou, Hara Kouki, and Ruby Gropas
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, Barbara Mattè
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
11. The 'New Germany' and Its Transformation Process: Narrating Collective Identity in Times of Transnational Mobilit; Naika Foroutan
12. Jews and Turks in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Representation, and Minority Rights; Gökçe Yurdakul
13. Towards a Cosmopolitan and Inclusive European Identity? Negotiating Immigrants' Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Europe; Oliver Schmidtke