Transnationalism from Below

Comparative Urban and Community Research
Herausgeber: Smith, Michael Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9781560009900
• ISBN-10: 156000990X
• Artikelnr.: 23308715

Autorenporträt

Smith, Michael Peter

Inhaltsangabe

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