Andreotti Alberta, Le Gales Patrick, Moreno-Fuentes Francisco Javier (ed.) Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-middle Classes in Europe

Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 260 p.Series Editors’ PrefaceIntroduction: Globalisation and the Coming Age of New Barbarians?
Upper-Middle Classes in European Cities
Globalisation, Transnationalism and Mobility in European Cities
Does Globalisation Induce ‘Exit’ Strategies?
Mobility and the Weakening of Local Ties in the Urban Context
Upper-Middle Classes: ‘Exit’ and Urban Disembeddedness
The ‘Partial Exit’ and Distance–Proximity Strategies of European
Upper-Middle Classes
Structure of the Book
Comparing Upper-Middle-Class Managers in Four Cities: A European
Social Group in the Making?
Searching for the European Upper-Middle Classes:
The Choice of European Managers
National Patterns in the Rise of Managers: France, Italy and Spain
Managers in Four European Cities: Milan, Madrid, Lyon and Paris
Selecting Four Neighbourhoods in Each City
Who Are These European Managers?
Managers as Modernising Agents
Liberal Cultural Values: Managers as Post-Industrial Educated
Cultural Species
Cosmopolitanism, Europeanisation and Multilayered Identities 53Managers in the City: Rooted and in Control — The Game
of Distance and Proximity
Combining Distance and Proximity: Interactions under Control
Choosing a City or a Metropolitan Region: Inheritance, Family Ties
and Professional Opportunities
Choosing a ‘Good’ Neighbourhood Close to Family and Friends
Keeping the Social Mix under Control Yet Fearless of the City
Conclusion: Managers Choosing a Place to Live — Family Ties, Relative
Degree of Mixing and Strict Control
Three Ways of Living in a Globalised World: Transnationalism as a Cleavage
Among European Managers
Mobility, Transnationalism and Social Differentiation
Living Abroad: A Dividing Line Among Managers
Professional Partial Exit Strategies: Going Abroad and Coming Back
The Most Common Form of Transnational Mobility:
Short-Term and Short-Distance
A Western-Centric World
Virtual Mobility for ‘Digital Nomads’
The World Is Becoming Increasingly More Competitive:
Children Must Be Ready
Rootedness as the Other Side of Mobility: Cross-Classifying
Transnational Practices and Rootedness
Conclusions: Transnationalisation Under Shelter?
Managers’ Social Networks: Whatever the Scale, Whatever the City,
‘Birds of a Feather Flock Together’
Managers’ Friends: Spatially Dispersed but Intensely Socially Homogeneous
Family and the City: A Recovered Relation
Neighbours: Who Are Those Strangers?
Family and Friends, but No Engagement in the Public Sphere
Conclusions: Dense Social Networks Abroad and in the City
Conclusion: Globalisation and Selective Rootedness in the City
A European Urban ‘Modernist’ Upper-Middle Class: Values,
Networks of Friends and European Mobility … but the Future Is Global
Transnational Mobility as Partial Exit: Mobility and Society
Transnational Mobility as a New Cleavage Among the Upper-Middle Classes
Globalisation and Selective Rootedness, Not Cosmopolitan Versus Locals:
Managers Settled Among Families and Friends
What Do We Learn from the Comparison?
The Future of Urban Europeans?Methodological Appendix
Questionnaire: Urban Upper-Middle Classes