In his talk “Cross-Border Collaboration on Climate Adaptation: A Comparative Network Analysis of the Danish-German Border Region”, Emanuel Deutschmann looks at a question that is becoming increasingly relevant: How do regions cooperate across national borders in the face of climate change?

His book “Mapping the Transnational World” provides the theoretical backdrop. Through a comparative analysis of eight forms of transnational mobility and communication — from migration and tourism to Facebook friendships and phone calls — Deutschmann demonstrates that our world is less globalised than it is regionalised. Contrary to popular notions of a “global village”, transnational activity is shaped above all by geographic proximity, not by political, cultural, or economic factors.

Emanuel Deutschmann is an Assistant Professor of Sociological Theory at the University of Flensburg and an Associate at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute. He holds an MSc in Sociology from the University of Oxford and a PhD with distinction from BIGSSS. His research spans transnational mobility and migration, regional integration and globalisation, power law structures, and human behaviour under uncertainty. He has been a visiting researcher at Princeton University's Global Systemic Risk research community and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.

Today | 12.15 – 13.45 | Forum Basiliense, Spalenberg 65, 4051 Basel, 1st floor