Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation
Author: Ravindra K. Jain
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-12
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1136704140
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Diaspora and Transnationalism
Author: Rainer Bauböck
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9089642382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiaspora & transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic & political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings goes hand in hand with a danger of essentialising collective identities. This book analyses this topic.
Diaspora Politics
Author: Gabriel Sheffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-10
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1139439952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is intended to fill in a gap in the study of modern ethno-national diasporas. Thus, against the background of current trends - globalization, democratization, the weakening of the nation-state and massive transstate migration, it examines the politics of historical, modern and incipient ethno-national diasporas. It argues that unlike the widely accepted view, ethno-national diasporism and diasporas do not constitute a recent phenomenon. Rather, this is a perennial phenomenon whose roots were in antiquity. Some of the existing diasporas were created in antiquity, some during the Middle Ages and some are modern. An essential aspect of this phenomenon is the endless cultural-social-economic and especially political struggle of these dispersed ethnic groups that permanently reside in host countries away from their homelands to maintain their distinctive identities and connections with their homelands and other dispersed groups of the same nation. While describing and analyzing the diaspora phenomenon, the book sheds light on theoretical questions pertaining to current ethnicity and politics.
Transnationalism
Author: Steven Vertovec
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-03-30
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1134081596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile placing the notion of transnationalism within the broader study of globalization, this book particularly addresses the emergence and impacts of migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational activities of migrants are fundamentally transforming social, religious, political and economic structures within their 'homelands' and places of settlement.
The Trans/National Study of Culture
Author: Doris Bachmann-Medick
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-08-22
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 3110372606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume introduces key concepts for a trans/national expansion in the study of culture. Using translation as an analytical category, it explores what is translatable and untranslatable between nation-specific approaches such as British/American cultural studies, German Kulturwissenschaften and other traditions in studying culture. The range of articles included in the book covers both theoretical reflections and specific case studies that analyze the tensions and compatibilities amongst contemporary perspectives on the study of culture. By testing various key concepts – translation, cultural transfer, travelling concepts – this volume reflects on an essential vocabulary and common points of reference for scholars seeking new frameworks and methodologies for the foundation of a trans/national study of culture that is commensurate with the entangled nature of our world society.
State/Nation/Transnation
Author: Katie Willis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-05-05
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1134414080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume examines the relationship between the nation and the transnation, focusing on transnational communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia.
Parliament and Diaspora in Europe
Author: M. Laguerre
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-04-24
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1137280603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes the unfolding of a new institutional phenomenon: the cosmonational parliament of the cross-border nation and the expanded state, focusing on three European national parliaments, namely the French Senate, the Italian Chamber of Representatives and Senate, and the Croatian unicameral parliament.
The Multisite Nation
Author: Michel S. Laguerre
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1137567244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains the transformation of the nation into a cosmonation (or multisite nation) through the reunification of the homeland with its diaspora. The book elaborates on how the mechanisms of linkages, connections, and networking interact to form distributed sites of homeland and diaspora into a cosmonation and how diasporans in different units of such a crossborder social formation, wherever they relocate, relate to each other. The ensemble thereby functions as a cultural and political collectivity manifested through cultural traditions, inter-site familial, institutional, and associational ties, transnational solidarity, and reverence for the ancestral homeland.
Transnationalism
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-05-20
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9047440110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with transnationalism and captures its singularity as a generalized phenomenon. The profusion of transnational communities is a factor of fluidity in social orders and represents confrontations between contingencies and basic socio-cultural drives. It has created a new era different from the past at essential respects. This is an age of enriching cultural diversity fraught with threatening risks inextricably linked to contemporary globalization. National sovereignty is eroded from above by global processes, from below by aspirations of sub-national groups, and from the sides - by transnational allegiances. This is the backdrop against which this book delves into the fundamental issues relating to the nature, scope and overall significance of transnationalism.
Bounded Mobilities
Author: Miriam Gutekunst
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2016-05-31
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 3839431239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and consolidated, particularly in times of hypermobility. Evidently, mobility is closely tied to immobility. This volume features ethnographic research that challenges the concept of mobility with regard to social inequalities and global hierarchies.
