Beyond Methodological Nationalism : Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415899628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 260 str.

Anna Amelina; Devrimsel D. Nergiz; Thomas Faist

Opis

This volume strives to establish a new agenda for methodologies in the social sciences, summarizing the most important research strategies developed in the social sciences since the early globalization and transnationalization studies of the 1980s and 1990s - namely, the cosmopolitican approach, the transnational lens, the scalar approach, and global and multi-sited ethnography. The contributions go beyond the early criticisms of methodological nationalism, providing insights into new strategies and illustrating how scholars apply these research strategies in different fields such as migration research and social anthropology. Analyzing the advantages and lacunae of new research strategies helps both to outline general methodological directions and to provide helpful guides for empirical analysis.

Spis treści

1. Methodological Predicaments of Cross-Border Studies  Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist, Nina Glick Schiller and Devrimsel D. Nergiz  Part I: Researching International Migration after Redefining Spatiality and Mobility  2. Transnationality, Migrants and Cities: A Comparative Approach  Nina Glick Schiller  3. Transnational Migration and the Reformulation of Analytical Categories: Unpacking Latin American Refugee Dynamics in Toronto  Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt  4. Overcoming Methodological Nationalism in Migration Research: Cases and Contexts in Multi-Level Comparisons  Anja Weiß and Arnd-Michael Nohl  Part II: Material, Culture and Ethnicity: Overcoming Pitfalls in Researching Globalization  5. Global Ethnography 2.0: From Methodological Nationalism to Methodological Materialism  Zsuzsa Gille  6. Uncomfortable Antinomies: Going Beyond Methodological Nationalism in Social and Cultural Anthropology  David Gellner  7. Approaching Indigenous Activism from the Ground Up: Experiences from Bangladesh  Eva Gerharz  Part III: Juxtapositions of Historiography after the Hegemony of the National  8. The Global, the Transnational, and the Subaltern: The Limits of History Beyond the National Paradigm  Angelika Epple  9. Incorporating Comparisons in the Rift: Making Use of Cross-Place Events and Histories in Moments of World Historical Change  Sandra Curtis Comstock  10. Interrogating Critiques of Methodological Nationalism: Propositions for New Methodologies  Radhika Mongia  Part IV: Conclusions  11. Transnational Social Spaces: Between Methodological Nationalism and Cosmo-Globalism  Ludger Pries and Martin Seeliger  12. Concluding Remarks: Reconsidering Contexts and Units of Analysis  Thomas Faist and Devrimsel D. Nergiz

O autorze

Anna Amelina is a researcher at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Devrimsel D. Nergiz is a Doctoral Fellow at Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS). Thomas Faist is Professor of Transnational Relations and Sociology of Development at the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University. Nina Glick Schiller is the Director of the Cosmopolitan Cultures Institute and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.