Title: The making of world society : perspectives from transnational research /
Authors: Anghel, Remus Gabriel.
Publisher: Transcript,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Transnationalism.; Globalization Social aspects
Contents: Introduction : the making of world society / Remus Anghel ... [et al.] -- Transnationalism in north and south : concepts, methodology and venues for research / Thomas Faist -- Transnationalism, translocal spaces, gender and development : methodological challenges / Gudrun Lachenmann -- World society, transnationalism and champs migratoires : reflections on German, Anglo-Saxon and French academic debates / Monika Salzbrunn -- Euro-Alevis : from Gastarbeiter to transnational community / Besim Can Zirh -- Identity politics as an expression of European citizenship practice : participation of transnational migrants in local political conflicts / Michael Janoschka -- Mothering in migration : transnational strategies of Polish women in Italy / Germana D'Ottavio -- Opening to the world : translocal post-war reconstruction in northern Sri Lanka / Eva Gerharz -- Transnationality, translocal citizenship and gender relations : transformation of rural community organisation, local politics and development / Gilberto Rescher -- A global city-state of finance : the staging of Singapore as financial hub between global and local rhetoric / Stephanie Hering -- The transnational management of hazardous chemicals / Alexandra Lindenthal -- 'Do you really talk about emotions on the phone -- ? : content of distance communication as a structuring moment of the modern world society / Magdalena Nowicka -- Does it matter where you are? : transnational migration, internet usage and the emergence of global togetherness / Heike Monika Greschke -- The indernet : a German network in a transnational space / Urmila Goel -- Afterword : are we all transnationalist now? / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka.