Performing global networks / edited by Karen Fricker and Ronit Lentin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fricker, Karen.

Lenṭin, Ronit.

Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Institute for International Integration Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social networks.

Social networks--Ireland.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Globalization--Social aspects--Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Networks are everywhere: from migrant organisations to information technology, from business to social movements, from international governance to global non-governmental organisations, from theatrical collectives to fan clubs, from memory sites to narrative circles. The portmanteau terms networks, and more specifically, global networks, seem to have become the mots du jour in contemporary cultural and social studies. But what cultural, social and political work do global networks accomplish:...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

" ... Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin, that the research group responsible for the body of research on global networks presented here, was encouraged and funded."--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-19079-2

9786612190797

1-4438-0703-6

OCLC:

816312099