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The Making of World Society : Perspectives from Transnational Research / ed. by Monika Salzbrunn, Gilberto Rescher, Eva Gerharz, Remus Gabriel Anghel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Global StudiesPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2015]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resource (332 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839408353
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 303.4 22/ger
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Making Of World Society -- Transnationality: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges -- Transnationalisation in North and South: Concepts, Methodology and Venues for Research -- Transnationalisation, Translocal Spaces, Gender and Development - Methodological Challenges -- World Society, Transnationalism and Champs Migratoires: Reflections on German, Anglo-Saxon and French Academic Debates -- Transnational ism, Political Participation and New Forms of Belonging -- Euro-Aievis: From Gastarbeiter to Transnational Community -- Identity Politics as an Expression of European Citizenship Practice: Participation of Transnational Migrants in Local Political Conflicts -- Mothering in Migration: Transnational Strategies of Polish Women in Italy -- Transnationalism and Development -- Opening to the World: Translocal Post-War Reconstruction in Northern Sri Lanka -- Transnationality, Translocal Citizenship and Gender Relations: Transformation of Rural Community Organisation, Local Politics and Development -- Networks, Hubs, Localities -- A Global City-State of Finance - the Staging of Singapore as Financial Hub between Global and Local Rhetoric -- The Transnational Management of Hazardous Chemicals -- IT Usage and Transnational Identity Formations -- 'Do you really talk about emotions on the phone .. ?': Content of Distance Communication as a Structuring Moment of the Modern World Society -- Does lt Matter Where You Are?- Transnational Migration, Internet Usage and the Emergence of Global Togetherness -- The lndernet -A German Network in a Transnational Space -- Are We All Transnationalists Now? -- Contributors -- Backmatter
Summary: Do the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? How do transnational migration, communication and worldwide economic and political networks manifest themselves in globalised modernity?This book presents innovative contributions to transnationalisation research and world society theory based on empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Making Of World Society -- Transnationality: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges -- Transnationalisation in North and South: Concepts, Methodology and Venues for Research -- Transnationalisation, Translocal Spaces, Gender and Development - Methodological Challenges -- World Society, Transnationalism and Champs Migratoires: Reflections on German, Anglo-Saxon and French Academic Debates -- Transnational ism, Political Participation and New Forms of Belonging -- Euro-Aievis: From Gastarbeiter to Transnational Community -- Identity Politics as an Expression of European Citizenship Practice: Participation of Transnational Migrants in Local Political Conflicts -- Mothering in Migration: Transnational Strategies of Polish Women in Italy -- Transnationalism and Development -- Opening to the World: Translocal Post-War Reconstruction in Northern Sri Lanka -- Transnationality, Translocal Citizenship and Gender Relations: Transformation of Rural Community Organisation, Local Politics and Development -- Networks, Hubs, Localities -- A Global City-State of Finance - the Staging of Singapore as Financial Hub between Global and Local Rhetoric -- The Transnational Management of Hazardous Chemicals -- IT Usage and Transnational Identity Formations -- 'Do you really talk about emotions on the phone .. ?': Content of Distance Communication as a Structuring Moment of the Modern World Society -- Does lt Matter Where You Are?- Transnational Migration, Internet Usage and the Emergence of Global Togetherness -- The lndernet -A German Network in a Transnational Space -- Are We All Transnationalists Now? -- Contributors -- Backmatter

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Do the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? How do transnational migration, communication and worldwide economic and political networks manifest themselves in globalised modernity?This book presents innovative contributions to transnationalisation research and world society theory based on empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching.

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