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Podcast: New Books in Sociology
Episode: Emanuel Deutschmann, "Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Description: 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 âglobal villageâ suggest? Through a sweeping comparative analysis of eight types of mobility and communication among countries worldwideâfrom migration and tourism to Facebook friendships and phone callsâMapping 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 dr...