Transnationalism

Where health and beauty meet: Femininity and racialisation in Thai cosmetic surgery clinics

by Aren Aizura

Asian Studies Review 33:3 (2009), 303—317.

Feminine Transformations: Gender Reassignment Surgical Tourism in Thailand

by Aren Aizura

Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 28: 4 (2010), 424-443.

The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: 'Race', Labor and Affect in Thai gender reassignment clinics

by Aren Aizura

In Peter A. Jackson, (ed), Queer Bangkok. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. Page proofs only.

Review of Decolonizing Literacy: Mexican Lives in the Era of Global Capitalism

by Shui-yin Sharon Yam

Published in The Journal of College Literacy and Learning

Globalization of Surveillance

by David Murakami Wood

In the Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (eds. K. Ball, K.D. Haggerty and D. Lyon), 2012.

This chapter makes three main arguments. The first argument is that surveillance itself is one of the existing... more This chapter makes three main arguments. The first argument is that surveillance itself is one of the existing phenomena being rescaled and becoming global. The second is that in order to facilitate this rescaling and to enable governmental functions to operate on a global level, there is what might be called a ‘surveillance of globalization’. The third argument is that although there is an identifiable emerging and perhaps potentially hegemonic form of global surveillance, there are other types of surveillance at the global level, and that surveillance occurs in varied ways and has radically different and uneven outcomes.

The chapter outlines the recent historical origins of the globalization of surveillance in the post-WW2 world and considers three examples of contemporary global surveillance: the economy, public goods, and communications, before discussing the interaction of surveillance and global circuits of capital at the local level.

De la India a las Indias y viceversa. Relaciones literarias entre Hispanoamérica y Asia (siglo XX)

by Catalina Quesada Gómez

Published in Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, XI, 42 (2011), pp. 43-63. ISSN 1577-3388

Una letteratura postnazionale

by Catalina Quesada Gómez

Published in Nuova Prosa, 56-57 (2011), pp. 33-50. ISSN 0394-5340

Review of Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios´s "Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections." Calgary: U of Calgary P, 2011. Pp. 333. ISBN 978-1-55238-514-2.

by Santiago Juan-Navarro

Published in Hispania 95.2 (2012): 344–75

Judicialicing transnational corporations in a global legal order

by David Restrepo Amariles

Let´s make a toast to art: A transnational economic paradigm

by Tinna Grétarsdóttir

Tesis de licenciatura. MIGRACIÓN MÉXICO – ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTUDIO DE CASO EN CAMPANA, DURANGO: UNA REGIÓN DISCONTINUA TRASNACIONAL.

by Ana Laura Gonzalez Valdés

Premio Fray Bernardino de Sahagun a la mejor tesis de licenciatura en Antropología Social 2006, Mension Honorífica. Migración, Región, Historia Regional.

MIGRACIÓN MÉXICO – ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTUDIO DE CASO EN CAMPANA, DURANGO: UNA REGIÓN DISCONTINUA TRASNACIONAL.more MIGRACIÓN MÉXICO – ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTUDIO DE CASO EN CAMPANA, DURANGO: UNA REGIÓN DISCONTINUA TRASNACIONAL.
Campana pertenece al municipio de Tlahualilo, ubicado al norte del estado de Durango, dentro de la Comarca Lagunera. En este ejido se producen algodón, melón y sandía para exportación. La crisis económica, las políticas de Estado, la falta de buenos compradores para el producto, la reducción del abasto de agua y los atractivos de la vida del otro lado de la frontera, han motivado un acelerado flujo migratorio hacia los Estados Unidos. En diez años ha emigrado más del 65% de la población.
Esta investigación se basa principalmente en los testimonios de personas originarias de La Campana que radican en Estados Unidos, durante su estancia en el ejido en el verano del 99,
invierno 99-00, verano 00, invierno 01 y verano 02; así como de los testimonios de los que se quedan allí en esos mismos periodos. A través de ella presentaré las imágenes tanto de los que se quedan como de los que se van, de la articulación entre su comunidad de origen y la de destino, como fundamento para la construcción de una región discontinua.
Reviso primeramente algunas teorías que conforman el sustento del planteamiento, posteriormente hago un recorrido por la conformación de la región, su historia y su situación actual, cotejando la información proporcionada por los sujetos con los datos existentes con relación a su conformación histórica y a la migración México-Estados Unidos, para finalmente presentar los estudios de caso y las conclusiones obtenidas en esta investigación.
La información aquí revisada solo cubre los años de 1998 a 2002 por lo que no se revisan las teorías que desde esta fecha se han desarrollado.

2011 “Empire, Global Capitalism, and Theory: Reconsidering Hardt and Negri,” Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Vol. 29. P. 187-207.

by Jeb Sprague

It has been over a decade since the publication of Michael Hardt and Antoni Negri’s widely read Empire, a book that... more It has been over a decade since the publication of Michael Hardt and Antoni Negri’s widely read Empire, a book that claimed humanity had entered a qualitatively new era in the organization of power. How do critical sociological studies that also theorize global capitalism depart from or share affinities with Hardt and Negri’s Foucauldian-inspired notion of empire? The two most important shared insights is the notion of a new epoch in the history of world capitalism and the conceptualization of a global system that moves beyond the idea of U.S. imperialism solely as behind its fundamental structure. However, overpowering Hardt and Negri’s framework are some fundamental problems: the vague and nondialectical idea of multitude, the lack of the role of the state, their confusing and contradictory idea of constitutionalism, and a misapprehension of immaterial labor.

2012 “Transnational State,” in George Ritzer, eds, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, First Edition (Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd).

by Jeb Sprague

The theory of an emergent transnational state (TNS), as coined by sociologist William I. Robinson (2001), claims that... more The theory of an emergent transnational state (TNS), as coined by sociologist William I. Robinson (2001), claims that through globalization a nascent political, juridical and regulatory
network is coming into existence worldwide. This notion rests upon the idea that a dominant social force, a transnational capitalist class (TCC), propels globalization through transnational corporations (TNCs) (Robinson & Harris 2000). The TCC, to promote and ensure its power, requires a concomitant political project. Such a political project would involve, for example: (i) promoting investor confidence in the global economy, (ii) setting up mechanisms and institutions for responding to economic, political, and military crises that threaten the stability necessary for global markets, and (iii) establishing a degree of macroeconomic policy uniformity across borders.

2009 “Transnational Capitalist Class in the Global Financial Crisis: A Discussion with Leslie Sklair,” Globalizations. Vol. 6, No. 4. P. 499-507.

by Jeb Sprague

In an interview, Leslie Sklair, author of The Transnational Capitalist Class (2001) and Professor Emeritus in... more In an interview, Leslie Sklair, author of The Transnational Capitalist Class (2001) and Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the London School of Economics, discusses his thoughts on today’s global financial crisis, its connections to a globally dominant social class—the transnational capitalist class—as well as his views on the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, and clarifications on his theoretical approach.

Transnational Print Cultures: Books, -scapes, and the Textual Atlantic

by Andrew van der Vlies

Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 8.1 (January 2007): 45-55. [DOI: 10.1080/17533170701295306]

Through a different lens

by Andrew van der Vlies

Interview with Bongani Ndodana-Breen. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 13.1 (2008): 118-24. [DOI: 10.1080/18125440802085886]

Annexing the Global, Globalizing the Local

by Andrew van der Vlies

With Patrick Denman Flanery. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 13.1 (2008): 3-17. [DOI: 10.1080/18125440802085258]

Outside the Nation(al): “South African” print and book cultures, and global “text-scapes”

by Andrew van der Vlies

In Mary Hammond and Robert Fraser, eds. Books Without Borders, Vol. 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008. 173-85. [ISBN: 978-0 230-21029-5]

An Interview with Mark Behr

by Andrew van der Vlies

Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 12.1 (January 2011): 1-26. [DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2011.533910]

Globophilia (Encyclopedia Entry)

by Richard Kahn

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, First Edition. Edited by George Ritzer. © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Published 2012 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.