1st Edition

Charting Transnational Fields Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge

Edited By Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg, Stefan Bernhard Copyright 2020
276 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation, standardization, and certification, or supranational political structures.... Read more

1. How to Chart Transnational Fields – Introduction to a Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge

Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg and Stefan Bernhard

Part 1: Methodological Foundations

2. How Many Fields can Stand on the Point of a Pin? Methodological Notes on Reflexivity, the Sociological Craft and Field Analysis

Niilo Kauppi

3. Adjusting a Bourdieusian Approach to the Study of Transnational Fields. Transversal Practices and State (Trans)formations Related to Intelligence and Surveillance

Didier Bigo

4. National, International, Transnational, and Global Fields. Theoretical Clarifications and Methodological Implications

Andreas Schmitz and Daniel Witte

5. The Post-National Analysis of Fields

Monika Krause

6. European Elites as (a) Field(s). Reflections on the Uses of Prosopography and Geometric Data Analysis Based on Three Joint Surveys of Transnational Objects

Frédéric Lebaron

Part 2: Investigating Political Fields

7. Global Change. A Field Theory Perspective on The End of Empire

Julian Go

8. The Double Function of Rankings. Consecration and Dispositif in Transnational Academic Fields

Julian Hamann and Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg

9. A Weak Field of Social Policy? A Transnational Perspective on the EEC’s Social Policy-Making (from the 1940s to the 1970s)

Karim Fertikh

10. The Rise of a European Field of Evidence-Based Education

Tomas Marttila

11. The Euro Crisis Dispositf. Heterogeneous Positioning Strategies in Polycentric Fields

Jens Maesse

12. Tracing ‘The Transnational’ in the Nationalization of School Policy. The Transformation of Standards-Based Reform in the US

Sigrid Hartong

Biography

Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg is Assistant Professor at Potsdam University, Germany.



Stefan Bernhard is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany.