Fielding transnationalism: an introduction Fielding transnationalism: an introduction
Fielding transnationalism: an introduction Fielding transnationalism: an introduction
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菲尔丁跨国主义:简介 菲尔丁跨国主义:简介
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10.1002/2059-7932.12000
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2016
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Go J
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The new interest in transnational phenomena since the 1990s has produced a wide range of studies across the social sciences. In the discipline of history, Akira Iriye (1989: 2) has called for historians to ‘search for historical themes and conceptions that are meaningful across national boundaries’, a call echoed by the new global and transnational history. In sociology, agendas for a ‘global sociology’have come from former President of the American Sociological Association, Michael Burawoy (2000, 2008) and prominent European theorist Ulrich Beck (2006), among others. Meanwhile, Immanuel Wallerstein has long urged social scientists to ‘unthink’state-centrism and theorize on a more global scale (Wallerstein, 2001).The intellectual space constituted by this work has been interdisciplinary. It has also sometimes been ‘undisciplined’in its use of diverse concepts, theories and literatures. Rather than overarching theoretically guided research programmes, we find disparate areas of research: studies of immigration, global cities, neoliberalism, neoimperialism, the global diffusion of organizational forms, and so on. The interdisciplinary and undisciplined nature of this space has had its advantages. It has led, for example, to surprising dialogues across the boundaries that sometimes separate theoretical schools within disciplines. It also brings with it potential disadvantages: It might mean, among other things, that the full potential of any one theoretical approach is not fully explored. Each of these empirical areas are rich but they have yielded, and engage with, separated theories of the middle-range: for example, theories of immigration, theories of global cities, theories of global culture, and so on. Besides a few exceptions, to be discussed below, shared theoretical frameworks or concepts on transnational processes across the subfields are comparably lacking. The papers in this collection specifically explore the potential of the concept of the ‘field’in the Bourdieusian tradition for analysing transnational processes. Throughout his career, but especially in his latter half, Bourdieu theorized ‘field’as an important part of his overarching theoretical corpus, alongside and part of concepts like practice, habitus, and capital (Swartz, 1997). He explored a