Framing the Global: Entry Points for Research - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253012961 ISBN 13: 9780253012968

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

[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)

This book should be read by every scholar of globalization. It demonstrates conclusively that the locality is not the shrinking other of the wave of globalization but rather its precondition, its theater, and its co-productive other. Touching on such topics as affect, rights, materiality, and rules, the essays in the volume bring globalization into the dynamic center of some of the most vital debates in the contemporary social sciences. (Arjun Appadurai New York University)

This remarkable volume breaks new ground in the field of global studies. Going far beyond case studies, the contributors show how intensive ethnographic and historically-informed engagements can produce compelling new understandings of important changes taking place in the world today. The book is also a testament to the value of collaborative research. (Gillian Hart University of California, Berkeley)

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0253012961
• ISBN 13: 9780253012968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Kahn Hilary E.