The Paradox of Everyday Europe: The Crisis of the European Project in the Context of Widespread Transnationalism

摘要

This book was undoubtedly published at the most appropriate time. As I read it, thenewspapers report the approval by the United Kingdom's House of Commons of theWithdrawal Agreement allowing the United Kingdom to leave the European Union onJanuary 31, 2020. Yet, as Favell and Recchi write in the book's introduction, "whether aswork,study and retirement abroad, employment of foreigners, friends' networks, travel,tourism, knowledge of diversity, media use, the consumption of foreign food, music,films ... Would we expect any European member state to be less Europeanised in a sociological sense on these measures - even (perhaps especially even) the one that has nowvoted itself out of the EU, the United Kingdom? " (p 4).