The Transnational Studies Reader
Intersections and Innovations
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
578 pages
978-0-415-95373-3 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years, 'transnationalism' has become a key analytical concept across the social sciences. While theoretical approaches to the study of global social phenomena have traditionally focused on the nation-state as the central defining framework, transnational studies views social experience as a complex and dynamic product of multiple regional, ethnic, and institutional identities. Far from being static or bounded by national borders, social, political, and economic forces operate on supra-national, trans-regional, and trans-local scales and scopes. Transnational studies compares and contrasts these dynamics to rethink assumptions about identity, sovereignty, and citizenship.
Assembling writings from some of the most important theorists in history, politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies, The Transnationalism Reader explores the ways that transnational practices and processes in different domains, and at different levels of social interaction, relate to, and inform each other. It also compares the spatial organization of social life during different historical periods.
Coherent in its vision and expansive in its disciplinary, geographic, and historical coverage, The Transnationalism Reader is a field-defining collection.
Assembling writings from some of the most important theorists in history, politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies, The Transnationalism Reader explores the ways that transnational practices and processes in different domains, and at different levels of social interaction, relate to, and inform each other. It also compares the spatial organization of social life during different historical periods.
Coherent in its vision and expansive in its disciplinary, geographic, and historical coverage, The Transnationalism Reader is a field-defining collection.
Reviews / Votes
"The multiple literatures on transnational processes and globalization have grown so fast that they threaten our ability to keep up. These literatures are also wildly uneven, as anyone who has waded into these scholarly waters can attest. Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt have thus performed an invaluable service by pulling together so many diverse and high quality pieces in a single volume. This is simply a "must" collection for anyone interested in understanding the complex and linked economic, political and cultural processes that are rapidly reshaping the world in which we live." -- Doug McAdam'The Transnational Studies Reader provides key groundworks underpinning the comparative analysis of globe-spanning social networks. It is an indispensable contribution to a burgeoning field.' - Steven Vertovec, Professor of Transnational Anthropology, University of Oxford 'All of the social and human sciences have been transformed by transnational scholarship. This has yielded new perspectives on issues from migration to religion to the role of corporations. And it has made it imperative for students and scholars to become familiar with work from several disciplines. Professors Khagram and Levitt have made a valuable contribution by bringing together so many informative and influential texts and helping readers gain an overview of these exciting lines of work.' - Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council
'Drawing on sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science, this book shows conclusively that good theory demands attention to transnational perspectives. Through articles on social phenomena as diverse as capitalism, religion, class, and art, the book proves that this approach is essential to understanding our increasingly transnational world.' - Sally Engle Merry, New York University, USA
'Few subjects are as critical in world affairs as how the forces of integration are smacking into reassertions of the particular. This book sheds considerable light on this intersection, and helps to illuminate core dilemmas of policy and cultural cohabitation on our small planet today.'- John G. Ruggie, Harvard University, USA
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
15 s/w Zeichnungen, 14 s/w Tabellen
14 Tables, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
1125 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-95373-3 (9780415953733)
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11/2007
1st Edition
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Persons
Dr. Sanjeev Khagram Lindenberg Center Director and Associate Professor of Public Affairs and International Studies at the University of Washington. He is also Co-Director of the Transnational Studies Initiative and Global Action Networks-Net. He was previously Acting Dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre and a faculty member at Harvard's JFK School of Government. He published Dams and Development in 2004 with Cornell University.
Peggy Levitt is Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at The Weatherhead Center and The Hauser Center at Harvard University where she co-directs The Transnational Studies Initiative. Her new book, God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape was published in Spring 2007.
Peggy Levitt is Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at The Weatherhead Center and The Hauser Center at Harvard University where she co-directs The Transnational Studies Initiative. Her new book, God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape was published in Spring 2007.
Content
1. 'Constructing Transnational Studies: An Overview' Peggy Levitt and Sanjeev Khagram Section 1: The Broad Foundations 2. 'Transnational Relations and World Politics: An Introduction Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye 3. 'Conclusion' and 'Post Scriptum' in Dependency and Development in Latin America Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto 4. 'The Homeland, Aztlan' Gloria Anzaldua 5. 'Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology' Arjan Appadurai 6. 'The Real New World Order' Anne Marie Slaughter 7. 'Introduction' and 'State and Global City' from Globalization and Its Discontents Saskia Sassen Section 2: Methodological Practices 8. 'Discipline and Practice: "The Field" as Site, Method Akil Gupta and James Ferguson 9. 'Methodological Nationalism, The Social Scienes, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology' Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller 10. 'Assimilation and Transnationalism: Determinants of Transnational Political Action among Contemporary Migrants' Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Alejandro Portes, and William Haller 11. 'Introduction' from Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 Beverly J. Silver 12. 'Transnational Struggles for Water and Power' and 'Dams, Democracy, and Development in Transnational Perspective' Sanjeev Khagram Section 3: Historical Perspectives 13. 'Breakthrough to History' William H. McNeill 14. The World System in the Thirteenth Century: Dead-End or Precursor? Janet Abu-Lughod 15. 'The Historical Sociology of Race' Howard Winant. 16. 'The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity' Paul Gilroy Section 4: Questions of Identity 17. 'Of Our Spiritual Strivings' W.E.B. DuBois 18. 'The Cosmopolitan Perspective: Sociology in the Second Age of Modernity' Ulrich Beck 19. 'The Nation-State and its Others: In Lieu of a Preface' Khachig Toeloelyan 20. 'Nigerian Kung Fu, Manhattan Fatwa' and 'The Local and the Global: Continuity and Change' Ulf Hannerz 21. 'Introduction: Transnational Feminist Practices and Questions of Postmodernity' Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan Section 5: Migrating Lives and Communities 22. 'Transnational Projects: A New Perspective' and 'Theoretical Premises' Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc 23. 'The Local and the Global: Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism' Michael Kearny 24. 'The Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Energized Research Field' Alejandro Portes, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Patricia Landolt 25. 'Transnational Perspectives on Migration: Conceptualizing Simulaneity' Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller Section 6: Religious Life Across Borders 26. 'Systemic Religion in Global Society Peter Beyer 27. 'Religion, States, and Transnational Civil Society' Susanne Hoeber Rudolph 28. 'Theorizing Globalization and Religion' Manual A. Vasquez and Marie Friedmann Marquardt Section 7: Arts and Culture 29. 'Locations of Culture' Homi Bhabha 30. 'Interstitial Subjects: Asian American Visual Art as a Site for New Cultural Conversations' Elaine H. Kim 31. 'Cultural Reconversion' Nestor Garcia Canclini (translated by Holly Staver) 32. 'Living Borders/Buscando America: Languages of Latino Self-Formation' Juan Flores (with George Yudice) Section 8: The Diffusion of Idesa, Values, and Culture 33. 'World Society and the Nation State John Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez 34. 'Norms, Culture and World Politics: Insights from Sociology's Institutionalism' Martha Finnemore 35. 'Do Regimes Matter: Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control' Peter Haas 36. 'Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket' Jason Kaufman and Orlando Patterson 37. 'Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia' James Watson Section 9: Corporations, Classes, and Capitalism 38. 'Introduction', from Transnational Corporations and World Order George Modelski 39. 'Imperialism, Dependency, and Dependent Development' Peter Evans 40. 'The Organization of Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chains: How U.S. Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks' Gary Gereffi 41. 'Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality' and 'Afterword: An Anthropology of Transnationality' Aihwa Ong Section 10: Non-State Actors, NGOs, and Social Movements 42. 'Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Introduction' Thomas Risse-Kappen 43. 'World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of International Non-Governmental Organization' John Boli and George Thomas 44. 'Social Movements and Global Transformation' Louis Kriesberg 45. 'Conclusions: Advocacy Networks and International Society' Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink 46. 'The Challenges and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Practice' Nancy A. Naples Section 11: Security, Crime, and Violence 47. 'Global Prohibition Regimes' Ethan Nadelmann 48. 'Transnational Organized Crime: An Imminent Threat to the Nation State?' Louise Shelley 49. 'Introduction', from New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era Mary Kaldor 50. 'Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Considered' David Kyle and John Dale