1st Edition
Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe Expert Knowledge and Scientific Planning in European Regional Development
1. Introduction 2. A critical introduction to world-polity research 3. Outline of a phenomenology of late modernity 4. A phenomenology of the rise of a ‘new regionalism’ 5. The European script of regional mobilization 6. Region-building and regional mobilization in Poland 7. The world-cultural make-up of Polish regions 8. Strategizing all the way down: traces of ‘standardized diversification’ 9. Conclusions: the spirit and the limits of world-cultural mobilization Appendix
Biography
Sebastian M. Büttner is Lecturer in Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include sociology of knowledge and culture, theory of modernity, transnationalization and regionalization in contemporary Europe, theories and practice of social government and social mobilization.
