Re-framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies
Author: Winfried Fluck
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1611681901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?
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Subordinated Development: Transnational Capital in the Process of Accumulation of Latin America and Brazil
Author: Rubens Sawaya
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9004366466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the processes of accumulation, concentration and centralisation of capital, this book explains the transnationalisation of capital and its impact on Latin America and Brazil. The first chapter addresses the logic of these processes from a Marxian perspective. The second chapter shows how this movement of capital expands into some Latin American countries, and how it subsequently retracts in the 1990s process of global centralisation. The third chapter evaluates Latin American strategies to attract capital by taking a subordinate position to capital’s global movement. The last two chapters focus on Brazil's development strategy in the face of the alternating expansion and contraction of capital, and point out the vulnerability of Latin American countries when their development is subordinate to transnational capital. First published in Portuguese as Subordinação consentida: capital multinacional no processo de acumulação da América Latina e Brasil by Annablume Editora/Fapesp in 2006.
The Imaginary and Its Worlds
Author: Laura Bieger
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1611684072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on papers originally presented at a 2009 conference hosted at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Univet'at Berlin.
After American Studies
Author: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-20
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1351681826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms—including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines, urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education, and ostensibly non-state media—the argument fills a gap in contemporary criticism by a focus on what makes cultural canons symbolically effective (or not) for an individual exposed to them. The book makes important points about the limits of transnationalism as a paradigm, evidencing how such approaches often reiterate presumptive and essentialized notions of identity that function as new dimensions of exceptionalism. In response to the shortcomings in trans/national criticism, the final chapter initiates a theoretical consideration of a postgeographic and postcultural form of community (and of cultural analysis).
Trump's America
Author: Liam Kennedy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-09-09
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1474458890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonald J. Trump's presidency has delivered a seismic shock to the American political system, its public sphere, and to our political culture worldwide.
Collaborative Public Diplomacy
Author: A. Fisher
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1137042478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing archival research and recorded interviews, this book charts the development of American Studies in Europe during the early Cold War. It demonstrates how negotiations took place through a network of relationships and draws lessons for public diplomacy in an age when communities are connected through multi-hub, multi-directional networks.
The Transnational Studies Reader
Author: Sanjeev Khagram
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Transnational Studies Reader is a new approach to understanding global social dynamics that doesn't take for granted that these dynamics take place in a national container.
A Translational Turn
Author: Marta E. Sánchez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2019-05-17
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 082298640X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo contemporary development underscores the transnational linkage between the United States and Spanish-language América today more than the wave of in-migration from Spanish-language countries during the 1980s and 1990s. This development, among others, has made clear what has always been true, that the United States is part of Spanish-language América. Translation and oral communication from Spanish to English have been constant phenomena since before the annexation of the Mexican Southwest in 1848. The expanding number of counter-national translations from English to Spanish of Latinx fictional narratives by mainstream presses between the 1990s and 2010 is an indication of significant change in the relationship. A Translational Turn explores both the historical reality of Spanish to English translation and the “new” counter-national English to Spanish translation of Latinx narratives. More than theorizing about translation, this book underscores long-standing contact, such as code-mixing and bi-multilingualism, between the two languages in U.S. language and culture. Although some political groups in this country persist in seeing and representing this country as having a single national tongue and community, the linguistic ecology of both major cities and the suburban periphery, here and in the global world, is bilingualism and multilingualism.
Hemispheric American Studies
Author: Caroline F. Levander
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2007-10-04
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0813543878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies. The essays take as their starting points such questions as: What happens to American literary, political, historical, and cultural studies if we recognize the interdependency of nation-state developments throughout all the Americas? What happens if we recognize the nation as historically evolving and contingent rather than already formed? Finally, what happens if the "fixed" borders of a nation are recognized not only as historically produced political constructs but also as component parts of a deeper, more multilayered series of national and indigenous histories? With essays that examine stamps, cartoons, novels, film, art, music, travel documents, and governmental publications, Hemispheric American Studies seeks to excavate the complex cultural history of texts and discourses across the ever-changing and stratified geopolitical and cultural fields that collectively comprise the American hemisphere. This collection promises to chart new directions in American literary and cultural studies.
Transnational Law and State Transformation
Author: Jennifer Lander
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-07
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0429664133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contributes new theoretical insight and in-depth empirical analysis about the relationship between transnational legality, state change and the globalisation of markets. The role of transnational economic law in influencing and reorganising national systems of governance evidences the constitutional dimensions of global capitalism: the power to institute new rules and limits for national states. This form of new constitutionalism does not undermine the state but transforms it by eroding national capacities and implanting global alternatives. While leading scholars in the field have emphasised the much-needed value of case studies, there are no studies available which consider the cumulative impact of multiple axes of transnational legal ordering on the national state or its constitution. This monograph addresses this empirical gap, whilst expanding the theoretical scope of the field. Mongolia’s recent transformation as a mineral-exporting country provides a rare opportunity to witness economic and legal globalisation in process. Based on careful empirical analysis of national law and policy-making, the book traces the way distinctive processes of transnational legal ordering have reorganised and reframed the governance of Mongolia’s mining sector, specifically by redistributing state power in relation to the market, sub-national administrations and civil society. The book investigates the role of international financial institutions, multinational corporations and non-governmental organisations in normative transmission, as well as the critical role of national actors in embedding transnational investment norms within the domestic legal and policy environment. As the book demonstrates, however, the constitutional ramifications of transnational legal ordering extend beyond the mining regime itself into more fundamental questions of the trajectory of state transformation, institutionally and ideologically. The book will be of interest to scholars of international law, global governance and the political economy of development.
