Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture
Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture
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美国超自然现象:幽灵遭遇、不明飞行物目击、大脚怪狩猎以及宗教和文化中的其他奇事
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2014
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P. Schwadel
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rock’’ of individual data-gathering, especially for young researchers, and warns against the ‘‘tyranny’’ of collective research promoted by funding foundations requiring interdisciplinary and international research designs. The chapters in Part III focus on issues of historiography and history that characterize pitfalls of methodological nationalism. In the chapter ‘‘Interrogating Critiques of Methodological Nationalism,’’ Radhika Mongia emphasizes the need to ‘‘historicize’’ state control of migration to avoid methodological nationalism’s practice of viewing the state control of migration as unchanging and naturalized (as a Westphalian product), amounting to a reification of state space. According to Mongia, even the critiques of cultural studies and transnational migration studies promote a ‘‘methodological statism’’ that dehistoricize state-space when the two perspectives maintain an implicit residue of methodological nationalism or fail to take the state into account. Using historical examples of state policies of the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she demonstrates how Indian policies which were derived from imperial debates promoted ‘‘free migration’’ of certain emigrant categories rather than restrict migration, because the state concept of methodological nationalism was assumed to be the unchanging stance of the state. Mongia says that it is necessary to look for specific ‘‘historical junctures’’ to historicize state control of migration. Her words ring true regarding the massive importation of Mexican braceros by the U.S. state during 1942 to 1964. Beyond Methodological Nationalism raises important issues that need to be considered in social research, given the increasingly fluid, diverse, and globally interconnected character of many social environments across world regions. Whether research is undertaken individually or collectively, it is necessary to investigate cross-border social processes through analytical frameworks that extend beyond the nation-state with sensitivity for fluidity and diversity, and to do so with a sense of historical change through time and space. This of course is not a present-day realization, but a methodological refrain of Marx’s depiction of the capitalistic modern era as one in which ‘‘uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions’’ and ‘‘everlasting uncertainty and agitation’’ characterize social life (Communist Manifesto:38).