Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Struggling with the Concept of a Public Sphere....Pages 27-55
The Counterfactual Imagination Punctuated by Triple Contingency: On Klaus Eder’s Theory of the New Public Sphere....Pages 56-74
Ambivalent Representations and Fragile Boundaries: Heroes, Victims, Perpetrators....Pages 75-90
Beyond the Political Mythology of the Westphalian Order? Religion, Communicative Action, and the Transnationalization of the Public Sphere....Pages 91-106
Social Movements and the Public Sphere....Pages 107-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Europe’s Missing Public: Problems and Prospects....Pages 137-151
Toward Pan-European Contentions? European Integration and Its Effects on Political Mobilization....Pages 152-167
Toward an Anthropology of the European Union: Insights from Greece....Pages 168-186
Climate Change as a Rhetorical Resource and Masterframe: An Analysis of the Daily Press Coverage and Public Opinion in Italy....Pages 187-207
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Differentiation of Migration Patterns in Europe: Social Integration Amidst Competing Societal Leitbilder of Enclosure of the ‘Other’, Acceptance, and Encouragement of Migration....Pages 211-232
The ‘New Germany’ and Its Transformation Process: Narrating Collective Identity in Times of Transnational Mobility....Pages 233-250
Jews and Turks in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Representation, and Minority Rights....Pages 251-268
Toward a Cosmopolitan and Inclusive European Identity? Negotiating Immigrants’ Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Europe....Pages 269-287
Back Matter....Pages 288-296