Full Description
Fielding Transnationalism presents a collection of original essays that explore the promises of the theory of social fields, a concept advanced most prominently by Pierre Bourdieu, for the analysis of global relations.
Features contributions from leading experts who scrutinize how transnational relationships in different areas are shaped by field dynamics
Draws on case studies ranging from the fields of religion, journalism, human rights, the social sciences, imperial governance, and the arts to the European Central Bank
Combines theoretical discussion with empirical approaches to provide an essential teaching resource on global issues
Offers a conceptual toolkit for researchers concerned with international and transnational phenomena across the social sciences
Contents
Fielding transnationalism: an introduction (Julian Go and Monika Krause)
1. What is a global field? Theorizing fields beyond the nation–state (Larissa Buchholz)
2. Moral accounting as field foundation in an early modern empire: the English East India Company in the late eighteenth century (Nicholas Hoover Wilson)
3. For good and country: nationalism and the diffusion of humanitarianism in the late nineteenth century (Shai M. Dromi)
4. Social fields, subfields and social spaces at the scale of empires: explaining the colonial state and colonial sociology (George Steinmetz)
5. Taken in by the numbers game: the globalization of a religious `illusio' and `doxa' in nineteenth–century evangelical missions to India (Martin Petzke)
6. Fielding supranationalism: the European Central Bank as a field effect (Stephanie L. Mudge and Antoine Vauchez)
7. The lawyers' war: states and human rights in a transnational field (Lisa Stampnitzky)
8. `Western hegemony' in the social sciences: fields and model systems (Monika Krause)
9. Is journalism a transnational field? Asymmetrical relations and symbolic domination in online news (Angéle Christin)
Notes on contributors
Index
