The transnational studies reader : intersections and innovations / Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khagram, Sanjeev.

Levitt, Peggy, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

International organization.

World politics.

Physical Description:

xii, 575 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Contents:

1 Constructing Transnational Studies / Sanjeev Khagram, Peggy Levitt 1

Section 1 The Broad Foundations

2 Transnational Relations and World Politics: An Introduction / Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Robert O. Keohane 23

3 "Conclusions" and "Post Scriptum" from Dependency and Development in Latin America / Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Enzo Faletto 36

4 The Homeland, Aztlan / El otro Mexico / Gloria Anzaldua 44

5 Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology / Arjun Appadurai 50

6 The Real New World Order / Anne-Marie Slaughter 64

7 "Introduction" and "The State and the Global City" from Globalization and Its Discontents / Saskia Sassen 72

Section 2 Methodological Practices

8 Discipline and Practice: "The Field" as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology / Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson 87

9 Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology / Andreas Wimmer, Nina Glick Schiller 104

10 Assimilation and Transnationalism: Determinants of Transnational Political Action among Contemporary Migrants / Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Alejandro Portes, William Haller 118

11 "Introduction" from Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 / Beverly J. Silver 135

12 "Transnational Struggles for Water and Power" and "Dams, Democracy, and Development in Transnational Perspective" / Sanjeev Khagram 147

Section 3 Historical Perspectives

13 Breakthrough to History / William H. McNeill 179

14 The World System in the Thirteenth Century: Dead-End or Precursor? / Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod 184

15 The Historical Sociology of Race / Howard Winant 196

16 The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity / Paul Gilroy 203

Section 4 Questions of Identity

17 Of Our Spiritual Strivings / W. E. B. Du Bois 217

18 The Cosmopolitan Perspective: Sociology of the Second Age of Modernity / Ulrich Beck 222

19 The Nation-State and Its Others: In Lieu of a Preface / Khachig Tololyan 231

20 "Nigerian Kung Fu, Manhattan fatwa" and "The Local and the Global: Continuity and Change" / Ulf Hannerz 235

21 Introduction: Transnational Feminist Practices and Questions of Postmodernity / Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan 251

Section 5 Migrating Lives and Communities

22 "Transnational Projects: A New Perspective" and "Theoretical Premises" / Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, Cristina Szanton Blanc 261

23 The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism / Michael Kearney 273

24 The Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field / Alejandro Portes, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Patricia Landolt 275

25 Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society / Peggy Levitt, Nina Glick Schiller 284

Section 6 Religious Life Across Borders

26 Systemic Religion in Global Society / Peter Beyer 299

27 Introduction: Religion, States, and Transnational Civil Society / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph 308

28 Theorizing Globalization and Religion / Manuel A. Vasquez, Marie Friedmann Marquardt 315

Section 7 Arts and Culture

29 Locations of Culture / Homi K. Bhabha 333

30 Interstitial Subjects: Asian American Visual Art as a Site for New Cultural Conversations / Elaine H. Kim 339

31 Cultural Reconversion / Nestor Garcia Canclini, translated by Holly Staver 342

32 Living Borders / Buscando America: Languages of Latino Self-Formation / Juan Flores, George Yudice 347

Section 8 The Diffusion of Ideas, Values, and Culture

33 World Society and the Nation-State / John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, Francisco O. Ramirez 359

34 Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology's Institutionalism / Martha Finnemore 369

35 Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control / Peter M. Haas 372

36 Cross-national Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket / Jason Kaufman, Orlando Patterson 377

37 Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia / James L. Watson 402

Section 9 Corporations, Classes, and Capitalism

38 "Introduction" from Transnational Corporations and World Order / George Modelski 411

39 Imperialism, Dependency, and Dependent Development / Peter Evans 415

40 The Organization of Buyer-driven Global Commodity Chains: How U.S. Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks / Gary Gereffi 429

41 "Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality" and "Afterword: An Anthropology of Transnationality" / Aihwa Ong 446

Section 10 Non-State Actors, NGOs, and Social Movements

42 Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Introduction / Thomas Risse-Kappen 459

43 World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of International Non-governmental Organization / John Boli, George M. Thomas 474

44 Social Movements and Global Transformation / Louis Kriesberg 490

45 Conclusions: Advocacy Networks and International Society / Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn Sikkink 501

46 The Challenges and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Praxis / Nancy A. Naples 514

Section 11 Security, Crime, and Violence

47 Global Prohibition Regimes: The Evolution of Norms in International Society / Ethan A. Nadelmann 531

48 Transnational Organized Crime: An Imminent Threat to the Nation-State? (Transcending National Boundaries) / Louise Shelley 540

49 "Introduction" from New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era / Mary Kaldor 555

50 Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered / David Kyle, John Dale 563.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780415953726

0415953723

9780415953733

0415953731

OCLC:

165082308