Tea Golob PH.D.

Living Beyond the Nation

European Transnational Social Fields and Identifications

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book provides key insights in experiencing lives and attitudes of the increasing number of people who reside beyond national boundaries and strategically create their life-paths. It is a brief but comprehensive introduction to the latest theoretical developments combining issues of reflexivity and habitus resulting in unique empirical and practical implications. Intended for the readers who are looking for a combination of scholarly insights and everyday life stories of the people living beyond the national constraints, no matter whether they are interested in contemporary social trends and their impact to individuals, ethnographic research, globalization trends or the future visions of the European Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 267866
• Seitenzahl: 94
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 130g
• ISBN-13: 9783631678664
• ISBN-10: 3631678665
• Artikelnr.: 45196124

Autorenporträt

Tea Golob is an Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at SASS, Slovenia. Her research interests are linked to transnational practices, narratives and identifications in the European and global context.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Transnational social fields - The EU - European identifications - Intentional deliberations - Social embeddednes - Habitus - Reflexivity - Instrumental identifications - Semantics - European civil servants - Linking ethnographic insights with contemporary social theory combining reflexivity and habitus - Addressing the instrumental nature of identifications resulting from the participation in the transnational social sphere - Reflecting transformed structural semantics and the tremendous changes of the individuals' positions within the social context.