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The Cosmopolitan Society and Its Enemies
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In the 21st century, the conditio humana cannot be understood nationally or locally but only globally as discussed by the authors, and this constitutes a revolution in the social sciences, which constitutes a change in the way of thinking.Abstract:
At the beginning of the 21st century the conditio humana cannot be understood nationally or locally but only globally. This constitutes a revolution in the social sciences. The `sociological imagin...read more
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Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
TL;DR: Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality by Aihwa Ong as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of transnationality. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
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Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter:
TL;DR: The notion of ''meaningful contact'' was introduced by as mentioned in this paper to explore the paradoxical gap that emerges in geographies of encounter between values and practices, and the need for geographers to pay more attention to sociospatial inequalities and the insecurities they breed, and to unpacking the complex and intersecting ways in which power operates.
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Regimes of Mobility Across the Globe
TL;DR: The Regimes of Mobility: Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power as discussed by the authors is a special issue of JEMS that introduces, build on, as well as critique, past and present studies of mobility.
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The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish between three different axes of conflict in world risk society: ecological conflicts, which are by their very essence global, and glocal conflicts which are local and local.
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
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Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
TL;DR: Flexible citizenship: the cultural logics of transnationality Part 1 Emerging modernities 1 The geopolitics of cultural knowledge 2 A "momentary glow of fraternity" Part 2 Regimes and strategies 3 Fengshui and the limits to cultural accumulation 4 The Pacific shuttle: family, citizenship, and capital Part 3 Translocal publics 5 The family romance of madarin capital 6 "A better tomorrow"?: the struggle for global visibility Part 4 Global futures 7 Saying no the West: Liberal reasoning in Asia 8 Zone of new soverignty Afterword: an anthropology of trans
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The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy
TL;DR: The Retreat of the State as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the field of international political economy, where the authors argue that there is no effective conclave of big corporations with United States government power, though these forces do seem to be the predominate actors.
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World Risk Society
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Cosmopolitan Manifesto of the World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society and the risk society Revisited: Theory, Politics, Critiques and Research Programmes.