ABSTRACT
This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields.
It builds on the belief that the study of major issues in the global cultural and political economies benefit from a perspective that rejects the limitations imposed by established boundaries, whether disciplinary, conceptual, symbolic or material. Established and early career academics explore and embrace contemporary political sociology following the ‘global’ and ‘cultural’ turns of recent decades. Categories such as state, civil society, family, migration, citizenship and identity are interrogated and sometimes found to be ill-suited to the task of analyzing global complexities. The limits of global theory, the challenges of global citizenship, and the relationship between globalisation and situated and mobile subjects and objects are all referenced in this book.
The book will be of interest to scholars of International Relations, Political Science, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Geography, Area studies and European studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|42 pages
Encounters beyond borders
chapter 2|16 pages
Seeing from the border with Chris Rumford
part II|54 pages
Everyday encounters and strangeness
chapter 4|15 pages
The complex trajectories of the commoner
chapter 6|14 pages
The story of the ship-in-a-bottle
part III|73 pages
Global studies and interdisciplinarity