Eschewing the Tedious Terrain of Looking for European identity Without Avoiding the Political

Everyday Europe: Social transnationalism in an unsettled continent, the subject of this symposium, is an innovative co-authored volume that is part of a welcomed and pro-grammatic shift in sociology and political science from normative theories and progno-ses of European society to empirical investigations of how Europe is socially constructed in the daily lives of its members. This important volume is a coherent and well-thought follow-up of previous work realized by the Pioneer project team (Recchi and Favell 2009). book detail, some explanation of the term of European ‘social transnationalism’ may of use. This book takes explicit inspiration from the work of Steffen Mau Social Transnationalism. Lifeworlds Beyond the Na-tion-State Consistent with the focus on social transnationalism as everyday practices, Favell and Recchi delineate the term in the Introduction using examples from everyday life. ever growing intra-EU tourism, cross-continental transportation of goods and SME business trade, to the diversifying consumption of international music and food – to take specific dimensions evoked in this we Mau