Author: Ludger Pries
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: transnationalism, routledge, research, organisations, link, meso, rethinking
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-08-14
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415467896
ISBN-13: 9780415467896

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

Author: Steven Vertovec
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: ideas, key, transnationalism
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-05-11
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415432995
ISBN-13: 9780415432993

’Transnationalism’ refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states. This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are fundamentally transforming social, political and economic structures simultaneously within homelands and places of settlement. Transnationalism provides a much-needed single, clear and condensed text conce

Authors:Shu-mei Shih, Francoise Lionnet,
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: transnationalism, minor
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822334909
ISBN-13: 9780822334903

Minor Transnationalism moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies. Where that model presupposes that minorities necessarily and continuously engage with and against majority cultures in a vertical relationship of assimilation and opposition, this volume brings together case studies that reveal a much more varied terrain of minority interactions with both majority cultures and other minorities. The contributors recognize the persistence of colonial power relations and the power of global capital, attend to the

Author: Ray Taras
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: belonging, xenophobia, transnationalism, new, old, europe
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2008-07-31
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 074255516X
ISBN-13: 9780742555167

Is Europe indeed uniting or instead falling apart as a result of anti-immigrant prejudices, a massive Islamic influx, and ancient intra-European hatreds? This innovative and engaging book explores the sources of Europe’s culture-based divide, arguing that the idea of two Europes is grounded both in reality and myth. The accession process that brought a dozen new members into the European Union after 2004 has highlighted the persisting gulf between _old_ and _new_ Europe despite the many physical barriers that have crumbled. Ray Taras examines the treaties, political rhetoric, citizen att

Author: Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: japanese, transnationalism, culture, popular, globalization, recentering
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822328917
ISBN-13: 9780822328919

Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western—particularly American—popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long Vacation—the export of Japanese media and culture is big business. In Recentering Globalization, Koichi Iwabuchi explores how Japanese popular culture circulates in Asia. He situates the rise of Japan’s cultural power in light of decentering globalization processes and demonstrates how Japan’s exte

Author: Brian McIlroy
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: studies, cultural, history, routledge, transnationalism, cinema, ireland, genre
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-05-11
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415770890
ISBN-13: 9780415770897

This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish Cinema.

Author: Nandini Bhattacharya
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: century, literary, transnationalism, eighteenth, gender, colonialism, connoisseurship, slavery
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 2006-07-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0754603539
ISBN-13: 9780754603535

Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about value and taste. She explores the circumatlantic redefinition of Taste and Value as cultural and moral concepts in gender and racial discourses in slave-owning, colonizing and connoisseurial Britain, and demonstrates how values and aesthetics were re