Transnationalism from below /

"Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourses on transnationalism. A core theme in this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as wea...

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Contributors: Smith, Michael P., Guarnizo, Luis.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©1998.
Series:Comparative urban and community research ; v. 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • I.
  • Theorizing Transnationalism.
  • 1.
  • The Locations of Transnationalism /
  • Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Michael Peter Smith.
  • 2.
  • The Fetishism of Global Civil Society: Global Governance, Transnational Urbanism and Sustainable Capitalism in the World Economy /
  • Andre C. Drainville.
  • 3.
  • Theoretical and Empirical Contributions Toward a Research Agenda for Transnationalism /
  • Sarah J. Mahler
  • II.
  • Transnational Economic and Political Agency.
  • 4.
  • Transnational Social Networks and Negotiated Identities in Interactions between Hong Kong and China /
  • Alan Smart and Josephine Smart.
  • 5.
  • Transnational Lives and National Identities: The Identity Politics of Haitian Immigrants /
  • Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron
  • III.
  • Constructing Transnational Localities.
  • 6.
  • The Power of Status in Transnational Social Fields /
  • Luin Goldring.
  • 7.
  • Transnational Localities: Community, Technology and the Politics of Membership within the Context of Mexico and U.S. Migration /
  • Robert C. Smith
  • IV.
  • Transnational Practices and Cultural Reinscription.
  • 8.
  • Narrating Identity Across Dominican Worlds /
  • Ninna Nyberg Sorensen.
  • 9.
  • Belizean "Boyz 'n the 'Hood"? Garifuna Labor Migration and Transnational Identity /
  • Linda Miller Matthei and David A. Smith.
  • 10.
  • Forged Transnationality and Oppositional Cosmopolitanism /
  • Louisa Schein.