Overview

Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for global research in the 21st century.

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Author:   Hilary E. Kahn ,  Saskia Sassen ,  Prakash Kumar ,  Stephanie DeBoer
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780253012968

ISBN 10:   0253012961
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   22 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Foreword / Saskia Sassen Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction / Hilary E. Kahn 1. AFFECT—Making the Global through Care / Deirdre McKay 2. DISPLACEMENT—Framing the Global Relationally / Faranak Miraftab 3. FORMS—Art Institutions as Global Forms in India and Beyond: Cultural Production, Temporality, and Place / Manuela Ciotti 4. FRAMES—Reframing Oceania: Lessons from Pacific Studies / Katerina Martina Teaiwa 5. GENEALOGIES—Connecting Spaces in Historical Studies of the Global / Prakash Kumar 6. LAND—Engaging with the Global: Perspectives on Land from Botswana / Anne Griffiths 7. LOCATION—Film and Media Location: Toward a Dynamic and Scaled Sense of Global Place / Stephanie DeBoer 8. MATERIALITY—Transnational Materiality / Zsuzsa Gille 9. THE PARTICULAR—The Persistence of the Particular in the Global / Rachel Harvey 10. RIGHTS—The Rise of Rights and Nonprofit Organizations in East African Societies / Alex Perullo 11. RULES—Global Production and the Puzzle of Rules / Tim Bartley 12. SCALE—Exploring the ""Global '68"" / Deborah Cohen and Lessie Jo Frazier 13. SEASCAPE—The Chinese Atlantic /Sean Metzger 14. SOVEREIGNTY—Crisis, Humanitarianism, and the Condition of Twenty-First-Century Sovereignty / Michael Mascarenhas Contributors Index"

Reviews

[A] stimulating and well-researched book that clearly makes a contribution to scholarship in global studies.... [O]ffers a wide variety of ways to conceptualize, represent, and investigate, or, as its title suggests, 'frame' the global. --Michael Peter Smith, University of California, Davis--Michael Peter Smith, University of California, Davis

"""[A] stimulating and well-researched book that clearly makes a contribution to scholarship in global studies... [O]ffers a wide variety of ways to conceptualize, represent, and investigate, or, as its title suggests, 'frame' the global."" - Michael Peter Smith, University of California, Davis"

Author Information

Hilary E. Kahn is Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University. She is author of Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond.

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