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The Transnational Studies Reader:
Intersections and Innovations
edited by Sanjeev Khagram, University of Washington and Harvard University
and Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College and Harvard University
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Peggy Levitt and Sanjeev Khagram "Constructing Transnational Studies: An Overview"
Section 1 THE BROAD FOUNDATIONS
2. Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye. "Transnational Relations and World Politics: An Introduction."
Rethinks the basics of world affairs
3. Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto. "Conclusion" and "Post Scriptum" in Dependency and Development in Latin America.
Transnationalizes the political economy of development
4. Gloria Anzaldúa. "The Homeland, Aztlán."
Interrogates territories at the interstices of nations and states
5. Arjan Appadurai. "Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology."
Reconceptualizes space and time transnationally
6. Anne Marie Slaughter. "The Real New World Order."
Identifies transgovernmental networks as critical pillars
7. Saskia Sassen. "Introduction" and "State and Global City" from Globalization and Its Discontents.
Conceptualizes places where the global, national and local converge
Section 2 METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICES
8. Akil Gupta and James Ferguson. "Discipline and Practice: 'The Field' as Site, Method and Location in Anthropology."
Disembeds ethnography from the "local"
9. Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller. "Methodological Nationalism, The Social Scienes, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology."
Critiques powerful conceptual blinders
10. Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Alejandro Portes, and William Haller. "Assimilation and Transnationalism: Determinants of Transnational Political Action among Contemporary Migrants."
Innovates transnational statistical research
11. Beverly J. Silver. "Introduction" from Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870.
Pushes the boundaries of transnational historical scholarship
12. Sanjeev Khagram. "Transnational Struggles for Water and Power" and "Dams, Democracy, and Development in Transnational Perspective."
Triangulates multiple types of data, methods and epistemologies
Section 3 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
13. William H. McNeill. "Breakthrough to History."
How the spread of disease, animals, and agriculture shaped the rise and fall of civilizations
14. Janet Abu-Lughod. The World System in the Thirteenth Century: Dead-End or Precursor?
The East and West were equal in the 13th Century, but Europe achieved hegemony three centuries later
15. Howard Winant. "The Historical Sociology of Race."
How the concept of race was produced cross-nationally
16. Paul Gilroy. "The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity."
Transnational idea-flows create monolithic nations that don’t include everyone
Section 4 QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY
17. W.E.B. DuBois. "Of Our Spiritual Strivings."
Racial minorities, with their multiple identities, see themselves through the eyes of the "other"
18. Ulrich Beck. "The Cosmopolitan Perspective: Sociology in the Second Age of Modernity."
Challenging "the container theory" of society
19. Khachig Tölölyan. "The Nation-State and Its Others: In Lieu of a Preface."
Defining the concept of diaspora
20. Ulf Hannerz. "Nigerian Kung Fu, Manhattan fatwa" and "The Local and the Global: Continuity and Change."
Globalization is not homogenization but the reorganization of culture across time and space
21. Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan. "Introduction: Transnational Feminist Practices and Questions of Postmodernity."
Transnational factors strengthen global feminism
Section 5 MIGRATING LIVES AND COMMUNITIES
22. Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc. "Transnational Projects: A New Perspective" and "Theoretical Premises."
Contemporary migrants develop networks, activities, lifestyles, and ideologies that span their home and host society
23. Michael Kearny. "The Local and the Global: Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism."
What’s the difference between globalization and transnationalism?
24. Alejandro Portes, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Patricia Landolt. "The Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Energized Research Field."
A second stage of transnational migration scholarship
25. Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller. "Transnational Perspectives on Migration: Conceptualizing Simulaneity."
Assimilation and enduring transnational ties are not incompatible
Section 6 RELIGIOUS LIFE ACROSS BORDERS
26. Peter Beyer. "Systemic Religion in Global Society."
How religion survives despite predictions that secularization will prevail
27. Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. "Religion, States, and Transnational Civil Society."
Transnational religious groups and movements transform international relations
28. Manual A. Vásquez and Marie Friedmann Marquardt. "Theorizing Globalization and Religion."
The multiple social sites and levels at which people live their religious lives
Section 7 ARTS AND CULTURE
29. Homi Bhabha. "Locations of Culture."
The politics of representation and empowerment
30. Elaine H. Kim. "Interstitial Subjects: Asian American Visual Art as a Site for New cultural Conversations."
Asian and Asian-American art do not create art using the same reference points
31. Néstor García Canclini [translated by Holly Staver]. "Cultural Reconversion."
How global economic and political restructuring affects national culture
32. Juan Flores [with George Yúdice]. "Living Borders / Buscando América: Languages of Latino Self-Formation"
Cultural crossovers from Latin America to the United States create new cultural forms which travel in both directions
Section 8 THE DIFFUSION OF IDEAS, VALUES, AND CULTURE
33. John Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez. "World Society and the Nation State."
Why distinct nation-states are organized in similar ways
34. Martha Finnemore. "Norms, Culture and World Politics: Insights from Sociology's Institutionalism."
Legitimization from outside explains organizational similarities
35. Peter Haas. "Do Regimes Matter: Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control."
Experts are key to cross-national idea adoption
36. Jason Kaufman and Orlando Patterson. "Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket."
Why cricket became the favorite sport in parts of the British Empire and not others
37. James Watson. "Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia."
The changing (or not so) face of McDonalds
Section 9 CORPORATIONS, CLASSES, AND CAPITALISM
38. George Modelski. "Introduction," from Transnational Corporations and World Order
Highlights the interlinkages with international systems
39. Peter Evans. "Imperialism, Dependency, and Dependent Development."
Explicates the influence of powerful transnational coalitions
40. Gary Gereffi. "The Organization of Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chains: How U.S. Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks."
Probes structured forms of transnational economic life
41. Aihwa Ong. "Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality" and "Afterword: An Anthropology of Transnationality."
Links transnational political-economic and cultural dynamics
Section 10 NON-STATE ACTORS, NGOs, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
42. Thomas Risse-Kappen. "Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Introduction."
Reintroduces and revises Keohane and Nye
43. John Boli and George Thomas. "World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of International Non-Governmental Organization."
Attributes world society to international professional associations
44. Louis Kriesberg. "Social Movements and Global Transformation."
Examines resources and strategies for transnational mobilization
45. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink. "Conclusions: Advocacy Networks and International Society."
Illuminates the genesis and effects of transnational activism
46. Nancy A. Naples. "The Challenges and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Practice."
Grounds possibilities and limits through gendered analysis
Section 11 SECURITY, CRIME, AND VIOLENCE
47. Ethan Nadelmann. "Global Prohibition Regimes."
Overviews transnational moral entrepreneurs promoting security
48. Louise Shelley. "Transnational Organized Crime: An Imminent Threat to the Nation State?"
Introduces the pervasiveness and perniciousness of this phenomenon
49. Mary Kaldor. "Introduction," from New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era.
Maps and explains transnational militarized conflicts
50. David Kyle and John Dale. "Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Considered."
Finds that the boundaries between licit and illicit are blurred
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