1st Edition
Transnationalism from Below Comparative Urban and Community Research
Edited By Michael Peter Smith
Copyright 1998
322 Pages
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Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
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Routledge
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Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political institutions. It also... Read more
I. Theorizing Transnationalism 1. The Locations of Transnationalism 2. The Fetishism of Global Civil Society: Global Governance, Transnational Urbanism and Sustainable Capitalism in the World Economy 3. Theoretical and Empirical Contributions Toward a Research Agenda for Transnationalism II. Transnational Economic and Political Agency 4. Transnational Social Networks and Negotiated Identities in Interactions between Hong Kong and China 5. Transnational Lives and National Identities: The Identity Politics of Haitian Immigrants III. Constructing Transnational Localities 6. The Power of Status in Transnational Social Fields 7. Transnational Localities: Community, Technology and the Politics of Membership within the Context of Mexico and U.S. Migration IV. Transnational Practices and Cultural Reinscription 8. Narrating Identity Across Dominican Worlds 9. Belizean “Boyz ‘n the ‘Hood”? Garifuna Labor Migration and Transnational Identity 10. Forged Transnationality and Oppositional Cosmopolitanism
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Smith, Michael Peter
