In Recent Years, 'transnationalism' Has Become A Key Analytical Concept Across The Social Sciences. While Theoretical Approaches To The Study Of Global Social Phenomena Have Traditionally Focused On The Nation-state As The Central Defining Framework, Transnational Studies Views Social Experience As A Complex And Dynamic Product Of Multiple Regional, Ethnic, And Institutional Identities. Far From Being Static Or Bounded By National Borders, Social, Political, And Economic Forces Operate On Supra-national, Trans-regional, And Trans-local Scales And Scopes. Transnational Studies Compares And Contrasts These Dynamics To Rethink Assumptions About Identity, Sovereignty, And Citizenship. Assembling Writings From Some Of The Most Important Theorists In History, Politics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, And Cultural Studies, The Transnationalism Reader Explores The Ways That Transnational Practices And Processes In Different Domains, And At Different Levels Of Social Interaction, Relate To, And Inform Each Other. It Also Compares The Spatial Organization Of Social Life During Different Historical Periods. Coherent In Its Vision And Expansive In Its Disciplinary, Geographic, And Historical Coverage, The Transnationalism Reader Is A Field-defining Collection. -- Provided By Publisher. 1. Constructing Transnational Studies / Sanjeev Khagram And Peggy Levitt -- 2. Transnational Relations And World Politics: An Introduction / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. And Robert O. Keohane -- 3. Conclusions And Post Scriptum From Dependency And Development In Latin America / Fernando Henrique Cardoso And Enzo Faletto -- 4. The Homeland, Aztlan / El Otro Mexico / Gloria Anzaldua -- 5. Global Ethnoscapes: Notes And Queries For A Transnational Anthropology / Arjun Appadurai -- 6. The Real New World Order / Anne-marie Slaughter -- 7. Introduction And The State And The Global City From Globalization And Its Discontents / Saskia Sassen -- 8. Discipline And Practice: The Field As Site, Method, And Location In Anthropology / Akhil Gupta And James Ferguson -- 9. Methodological Nationalism, The Social Sciences, And The Study Of Migration: An Essay In Historical Epistemology / Andreas Wimmer And Nina Glick Schiller --^ 10. Assimilation And Transnationalism: Determinants Of Transnational Political Action Among Contemporary Migrants / Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Alejandro Portes And William Haller -- 11. Introduction From Forces Of Labor: Workers' Movements And Globalization Since 1870 / Beverly J. Silver -- 12. Transnational Struggles For Water And Power And Dams, Democracy, And Development In Transnational Perspective / Sanjeev Khagram -- 13. Breakthrough To History / William H. Mcneill -- 14. The World System In The Thirteenth Century: Dead-end Or Precursor? / Janet Lippman Abu-lughod -- 15. The Historical Sociology Of Race / Howard Winant -- 16. The Black Atlantic As A Counterculture Of Modernity / Paul Gilroy -- 17. Of Our Spiritual Strivings / W.e.b. Du Bois -- 18. The Cosmopolitan Perspective: Sociology Of The Second Age Of Modernity / Ulrich Beck -- 19. The Nation-state And Its Others: In Lieu Of A Preface / Khachig Tololyan --^ 20. Nigerian Kung Fu, Manhattan Fatwa And The Local And The Global: Continuity And Change / Ulf Hannerz -- 21. Introduction: Transnational Feminist Practices And Questions Of Postmodernity / Inderpal Grewal And Caren Kaplan -- 22. Transnational Projects: A New Perspective And Theoretical Premises / Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller And Cristina Szanton Blanc -- 23. The Local And The Global: The Anthropology Of Globalization And Transnationalism / Michael Kearney -- 24. The Study Of Transnationalism: Pitfalls And Promise Of An Emergent Research Field / Alejandro Portes, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo And Patricia Landolt -- 25. Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective On Society / Peggy Levitt And Nina Glick Schiller -- 26. Systemic Religion In Global Society / Peter Beyer -- 27. Introduction: Religion, States, And Transnational Civil Society / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph --^ 28. Theorizing Globalization And Religion / Manuel A. Vasquez And Marie Friedmann Marquardt -- 29. Locations Of Culture / Homi K. Bhabha -- 30. Interstitial Subjects: Asian American Visual Art As A Site For New Cultural Conversations / Elaine H. Kim -- 31. Cultural Reconversion / Nestor Garcia Canclini -- 32. Living Borders / Buscando America: Languages Of Latino Self-formation / Juan Flores And George Yudice -- 33. World Society And The Nation-state / John W. Meyer [and Others] -- 34. Norms, Culture, And World Politics: Insights From Sociology's Institutionalism / Martha Finnemore -- 35. Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities And Mediterranean Pollution Control / Peter M. Haas -- 36. Cross-national Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread Of Cricket / Jason Kaufman And Orlando Patterson -- 37. Transnationalism, Localization, And Fast Foods In East Asia / James L. Watson -- 38. Introduction From Transnational Corporations And World Order / George Modelski --^ 39. Imperialism, Dependency, And Dependent Development / Peter Evans -- 40. The Organization Of Buyer-driven Global Commodity Chains: How U.s. Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks / Gary Gereffi -- 41. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics Of Transnationality And Afterword: An Anthropology Of Transnationality / Aihwa Ong -- 42. Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Introduction / Thomas Risse-kappen -- 43. World Culture In The World Polity: A Century Of International Non-governmental Organization / John Boli And George M. Thomas -- 44. Social Movements And Global Transformation / Louis Kriesberg -- 45. Conclusions: Advocacy Networks And International Society / Margaret E. Keck And Kathryn Sikkink -- 46. The Challenges And Possibilities Of Transnational Feminist Praxis / Nancy A. Naples -- 47. Global Prohibition Regimes: The Evolution Of Norms In International Society / Ethan A. Nadelmann --^ 48. Transnational Organized Crime: An Imminent Threat To The Nation-state? (transcending National Boundaries) / Louise Shelley -- 49. Introduction From New And Old Wars: Organized Violence In A Global Era / Mary Kaldor -- 50. Smuggling The State Back In: Agents Of Human Smuggling Reconsidered / David Kyle And John Dale. Sanjeev Khagram And Peggy Levitt, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References.