Europe Beyond Mobility
Mobility, which has represented a critical scientific category and political driver, is currently under strong public scrutiny: has mobility lost its potential for social cohesion and political integration? Europe Beyond Mobility: Mobilities, Social Cohesion and Political Integration assesses this question by focusing on the European integration process, conceptualized as a political project for the promotion of different flows of mobility.
Mobility has been a fundamental tool for territorial strength and political integration among European countries. Based on a realistic understanding of the potentials and limits of mobility, this book pleads for a resonant mobility in the interest of a renovated European integration process. It examines how, in opposition to those advocating for national borders and mobility restrictions, the EU needs to explore new regulatory models which limit mobilitys adverse social, economic and environmental impacts and make accessible the benefits of alternative flow models. It also provides an analytical framework for the study of current trends of mobility limitation, migration restriction and re-bordering, and offers a complementary and innovative framework for the study of globalization.
Europe Beyond Mobility will be of interest to academics and students as well as policy makers and practitioners internationally in the fields of mobility, migration and border studies.
Vincent Kaufmann is Associate Professor of Urban Sociology and Mobility at cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2011, he is also scientific director of the Mobile Lives Forum in Paris. After a masters degree in sociology (University of Geneva), he did his PhD at EPFL on rationalities underlying transport modal practices. He has been an invited lecturer at Lancaster University (20002001), cole des Ponts et Chausses, Paris (20012002), Laval University, Qubec (2008), Nimegen University (2010), Universit de Toulouse Le Mirail (2011), Politechnico Milan (2016), Universit Catholique de Louvain (20042018) and Tongji University in Shanghai (2018).
Ander Audikana is Master Class Seal of Excellence Research Fellow at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He obtained a B.A. in sociology at the University of Deusto, a M.A. in city and regional planning at the University Paris 12 and the ENS Diploma in urban sociology at the cole Normale Suprieure de Paris. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University Paris-Est. He was Fulbright-Schuman scholar in urban planning in the United States at George Mason University and at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also postdoctoral research fellow at the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne and the University of Deusto.
Guillaume Drevon is currently working at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research LISER since 2021 as a research associate. Guillaume Drevon is also an associate scientist at the Urban Sociology Lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. He obtained a B.A. in geography and a M.A. in territorial development and planning at the University of Grenoble-Alpes. He obtained an AFR-PHD grant from the Luxembourg National Research Fund. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Grenoble-Alpes in partnership with the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-economic Research. A part of his research focuses on cross-border regions by developing an individual centered approach which reveals socio-spatial bridges across the border (attachment, identities, personal network, cross-border activities, cross-border past experiences).
EUROPE BEYOND MOBILITY
Mobilities, Social Cohesion and Political Integration
Vincent Kaufmann, Ander Audikana and Guillaume Drevon
Translated from French by Jessica Strelec
First published 2022
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Names: Kaufmann, Vincent, author. | Audikana, Ander, 1983- author. | Drevon, Guillaume, author.
Title: Europe beyond mobility : mobilities, social cohesion and political integration / Vincent Kaufmann, Ander Audikana and Guillaume Drevon ; translated from French by Jessica Strelec.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Networked urban mobilities | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2021025934 (print) | LCCN 2021025935 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367343231 (hbk) | ISBN 9780367343224 (pbk) | ISBN 9780429325014 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: European Union countriesEconomic conditions. | EuropeEconomic integration. | European Union countriesSocial conditions. | Freedom of movementEuropean Union countries. | Social mobilityEuropean Union countries. | Social integrationEuropean Union countries.
Classification: LCC HC241.2 .K295 2022 (print) | LCC HC241.2 (ebook) | DDC 330.94dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021025934
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021025935
ISBN: 978-0-367-34323-1 (hbk)
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DOI: 10.4324/9780429325014
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City Europa
DOI: 10.4324/9780429325014-1
Europe has become one (very) big city, with rich and poor neighborhoods, outskirts and centers, and, above all, urban issues. In reality, Europe may have always been a megacity, but recent changes and their impact have made this analogy clearer and more pertinent than ever.
As with all cities, it is not easy to delineate the boundaries of the European metropolis. Europe indeed remains an ill-defined, vague geographic space whose borders are malleable and fluctuate with the vagaries of geopolitics. Moreover, it seems to be spreading, much as urbanization is advancing towards the outskirts of cities. New spaces join and merge with the urban continent functionally, new neighborhoods appear, and the urban perimeter expands, thus creating urban sprawl. However, Europe is also shrinking, for example with the United Kingdoms exit following the Brexit vote on 23 June 2016.
