Description: Mapping the Transnational World : How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters, Hardcover by Deutschmann, Emanuel, ISBN 0691226490, ISBN-13 9780691226491, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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 Fac 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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Book Title: Mapping the Transnational World : How We Move and Communicate Acr
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Mapping the Transnational World : How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Communication Studies, Sociology / General, Emigration & Immigration
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 20.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Emanuel Deutschmann
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Series: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology Ser.
Format: Hardcover
