Transnationalism from Below: Comparative Urban and Community Research

ISBN-13: 9781138539860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str.

Michael Peter Smith

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Smith, Michael Peter