Mapping the Transnational World
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Mapping the Transnational World

How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mapping the Transnational World

How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters

About this book

A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication

Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it really a fully globalized world in which everything is linked, as popular catchphrases like "global village" suggest? Through a sweeping comparative analysis of eight types of mobility and communication among countries worldwide—from migration and tourism to Facebook friendships and phone calls—Mapping the Transnational World demonstrates that our behavior is actually regionalized, not globalized.

Emanuel Deutschmann shows that transnational activity within world regions is not so much the outcome of political, cultural, or economic factors, but is driven primarily by geographic distance. He explains that the spatial structure of transnational human activity follows a simple mathematical function, the power law, a pattern that also fits the movements of many other animal species on the planet. Moreover, this pattern remained extremely stable during the five decades studied—1960 to 2010. Unveiling proximity-induced regionalism as a major feature of planet-scale networks of transnational human activity, Deutschmann provides a crucial corrective to several fields of research.

Revealing why a truly global society is unlikely to emerge, Mapping the Transnational World highlights the essential role of interaction beyond borders on a planet that remains spatially fragmented.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Epigraphs
  6. Summary of Contents
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. 1. Entering the Transnational World
  11. 2. Four Paths toward a Comparative Sociology of Regional Integration
  12. 3. The Regionalized Structure of Transnational Human Activity, 1960–2010
  13. Color Plates
  14. 4. Why Does Regionalism Occur in Transnational Human Activity?
  15. 5. The Spatial Structure of Transnational Human Activity
  16. 6. Lessons: Mobilization, Not Globalization
  17. Appendix
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index