Rethinking Transnationalism
Title | Rethinking Transnationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Ludger Pries |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2008-08-18 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1134033990 |
This book presents theoretical contributions to the transnationalism approach and offers empirical studies in the field of the transnationalization of organizations.
Rethinking Transnationalism
Title | Rethinking Transnationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Ludger Pries |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2008-08-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134033982 |
During the last two decades transnationalism has become an important conceptual approach and research programme. However, the term has steadily become vague and indistinct underlining the need for conceptual précising as well as more defined empirical research. Rethinking Transnationalism does this in two ways. On one hand it presents theoretical contributions to the transnationalism approach and, on the other hand, it offers empirical studies in the field of the transnationalization of organizations. The book integrates outstanding international scholars of transnationalism and migration studies with specialists from a broad variety of disciplines that apply the transnationalism approach to different organizations such as NGOs, feminist networks, educational spaces and European Works Councils. Presenting an overview of transnationalism and the surrounding debates, this interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology, Educational Sciences, Migration and Geography.
Transnational Architecture and Urbanism
Title | Transnational Architecture and Urbanism PDF eBook |
Author | Davide Ponzini |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2020-05-28 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1351847236 |
Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, increasingly multinational modes of design have arisen, especially concerning prominent buildings and places. Traditional planning and design disciplines have proven to have limited comprehension of, and little grip on, such transformations. Public and scholarly discussions argue that these projects and transformations derive from socioeconomic, political, cultural trends or conditions of globalization. The author suggests that general urban theories are relevant as background, but of limited efficacy when dealing with such context-bound projects and policies. This book critically investigates emerging problematic issues such as the spectacularization of the urban environment, the decontextualization of design practice, and the global circulation of plans and projects. The book portends new conceptualizations, evidence-based explanations, and practical understanding for architects, planners, and policy makers to critically learn from practice, to cope with these transnational issues, and to put better planning in place.
Rethinking Transnational Men
Title | Rethinking Transnational Men PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Hearn |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2013-07-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135022461 |
The world is becoming more transnational. This edited collection examines how the immense transnational changes in the contemporary world are being produced by and are affecting different men and masculinities. It seeks to shift debates on men, masculinities and gender relations from the strictly local and national context to much greater concern with the transnational and global. Established and rising scholars from Asia, Australia, Europe and North America explore subjects including economies and business corporations; sexualities and the sex trade; information and communication technologies and cyberspace; migration; war, the military and militarism; politics; nationalism; and symbolism and image-making.
Rethinking World Politics
Title | Rethinking World Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Philip G. Cerny |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2010-03-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199889856 |
Rethinking World Politics is a major intervention into a central debate in international relations: how has globalization transformed world politics? Most work on world politics still presumes the following: in domestic affairs, individual states function as essentially unified entities, and in international affairs, stable nation-states interact with each other. In this scholarship, the state lies at the center; it is what politics is all about. However, Philip Cerny contends that recent experience suggests another process at work: "transnational neopluralism." In the old version of pluralist theory, the state is less a cohesive and unified entity than a varyingly stable amalgam of competing and cross-cutting interest groups that surround and populate it. Cerny explains that contemporary world politics is subject to similar pressures from a wide variety of sub- and supra-national actors, many of which are organized transnationally rather than nationally. In recent years, the ability of transnational governance bodies, NGOs, and transnational firms to shape world politics has steadily grown. Importantly, the rapidly growing transnational linkages among groups and the emergence of increasingly influential, even powerful, cross-border interest and value groups is new. These processes are not replacing nation-states, but they are forging new transnational webs of power. States, he argues, are themselves increasingly trapped in these webs. After mapping out the dynamics behind contemporary world politics, Cerny closes by prognosticating where this might all lead. Sweeping in its scope, Rethinking World Politics is a landmark work of international relations theory that upends much of our received wisdom about how world politics works and offers us new ways to think about the forces shaping the contemporary world.
After American Studies
Title | After American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2017-07-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351681826 |
After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms—including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines, urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education, and ostensibly non-state media—the argument fills a gap in contemporary criticism by a focus on what makes cultural canons symbolically effective (or not) for an individual exposed to them. The book makes important points about the limits of transnationalism as a paradigm, evidencing how such approaches often reiterate presumptive and essentialized notions of identity that function as new dimensions of exceptionalism. In response to the shortcomings in trans/national criticism, the final chapter initiates a theoretical consideration of a postgeographic and postcultural form of community (and of cultural analysis).
Rethinking Migration
Title | Rethinking Migration PDF eBook |
Author | Alejandro Portes |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2008-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1845455436 |
Includes statistical tables.