The Transnational Studies Reader -

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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

Résumé :

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, Aztl?n' Gloria Anzald?a 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 T?l?lyan 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. V?squez 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' N?stor Garc?a Canclini (translated by Holly Staver) 32. 'Living Borders/Buscando Am?rica: Languages of Latino Self-Formation' Juan Flores (with George Y?dice) Section 8: The Diffusion of Idesa, Values, and Culture 33. 'World Society and the Nation State John Meyer, Joh...