1st Edition

Rethinking Transnationalism The Meso-link of organisations

Edited By Ludger Pries Copyright 2008
224 Pages
by Routledge

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by Routledge

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by Routledge

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... Read more

1 Transnational Societal Spaces: Which Units of Analysis, Reference, and Measurement? 2 Constructing Transnational Studies 3 Beyond Methodological Ethnicity and Towards City Scale 4 Transstate Spaces and Development: Some Critical Remarks 5 Transnational Humanitarian NGOs? A Progress Report 6 Glocalizing Gender Justice 7 Transnational Organisations in Education 8 European Works Councils as Transnational Interest Organisations?

Biography

Ludger Pries is Professor at the Department of Social Science, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.