Caste Diasporas beyond National Boundaries: Digital Caste Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Jillet Sarah Sam
Keyword(s):  
Nation State ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
National Boundaries

Although castes are organizing as cross-border formations empirically, the literature seems preoccupied with analyzing caste diasporas in terms of the boundaries of the nation-state. This article examines how digital caste networks serve as border-spanning caste diaspora by drawing on Steven Vertovec’s conceptualization of a diaspora. The analysis draws on ethnographic data to analyze the case of the Cyber Thiyyars of Malabar, a digital caste network that seeks to mobilize members of the Thiyya caste by foregrounding regional affiliations with Malabar.

Listening in on the Neighbors: The Reception of German and Austrian Radio in Cold War Czechoslovakia

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-620
Author(s):  
Rosamund Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
German Language ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Listening Habits ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Radio Free Europe

AbstractIn 1966, a Radio Free Europe (RFE) report estimated that seven in ten Czechs and Slovaks listened to Radio Vienna, making it the most popular foreign station in Czechoslovakia. Yet conventional narratives of Western radio in socialist central Europe highlight the role played by runner-up RFE. By focusing on the practice of listening to German-language radio in Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1969, this article shows that cross-border, German-language listening mattered not only between the Germanies, but also in central Europe, where listening habits were shaped by the region's multilingual heritage. In addition to highlighting German's significance as a language of regional communication, the article reveals the importance of cross-border contacts and the significance of light entertainment in Cold War central Europe. Rather than separating listeners out by citizenship, foreign radio listening fostered solidarities that cut across national boundaries and divided people by generation, geography, class, and technical dexterity instead.

Transnational Solidarity of Salafi ʿUlama

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-62
Author(s):  
Raihan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Political Islam ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Transnational Solidarity ◽  
Cross National

This chapter examines the history of transnational networks of Salafi ʿulama in the context of Islamism. It looks at the emergence of Salafi cross-border connections which began as apolitical, but gradually mutated, witnessing the development of the activist haraki trend. The chapter then examines how both haraki and quietist ʿulama forged regional alliances to preserve their interpretations of political Islam by endorsing other ʿulama of similar views. These interactions cross national boundaries, and take place within the framework of domestic, regional, and global political circumstances. The chapter analyzes whether these political circumstances foster or destabilize the networks of ʿulama as they attempt to construct and maintain Salafi political or apolitical identity.

The social structure of transnational practices

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-86
Author(s):  
Justyna Salamońska ◽  
Ettore Recchi
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
And Gender

This chapter argues that mobilities – in their plural and multidimensional manifestations – shape the everyday lives of Europeans on a much larger scale than has so far been recognised. The chapter’s interest lies particularly in cross-border mobilities, as these erode the ‘container’ nature of nation state societies. Expanding on previous research on international migration within the EU, we contend that the process of European integration goes hand in hand with globalisation and leads to enhanced relations among individuals that obliterate national boundaries. Through regression analysis and multiple correspondence analysis, the chapter examines to what extent country- and individual-level factors structure these ‘mobility styles’, documenting how access to movement is strongly mediated by socioeconomic status, but also cognitive capacities, both among nationals and non-nationals. We find that the overall robust effects of socioeconomic differences (education, income and gender, in particular) operate quite differently across national contexts.

scholarly journals Nation-states, transnational corporations and cosmopolitans in the global popular music economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-418
Author(s):  
Keith Negus
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Nation State ◽  
State Control ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Bounded State ◽  
Financial Power ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Alternative Spaces

This article assesses changing debates about globalisation in light of the growth of digital media. It stresses how popular music is shaped by enduring tensions between nation-state attempts to control territorial borders, the power of transnational corporations aiming to operate across these borders and emergent cosmopolitan practices that offer a cultural challenge to these borders. It outlines how popular music is influenced by physical place and highlights the cultural and political importance of the nation-state for understanding the context within which musical creativity occurs. It explains how transnational corporations use financial power to work across and to gain entry to national boundaries, and assesses claims that cosmopolitanism musical encounters offer more inclusive and alternative spaces to that of bounded state control and unbounded capitalist competition. It concludes by arguing for a more music-centred approach to the powers and pluralisms through which popular music moves at the meeting of states, corporations and cosmopolitans.

scholarly journals Private International Law and the African Economic Community: A Plea for Greater Attention

2006 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 911-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Frimpong Oppong
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Subject ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Free Movement Of Persons

Private international law deals with problems that arise when transactions or claims involve a foreign element. Such problems are most frequent in a setting that allows for the growth of international relationships, be they commercial or personal. Economic integration provides such a setting and allows for the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital across national boundaries. The facilitation of factor mobility resulting from economic integration and the concomitant growth in international relationships results in problems which call for resolution using the tools of private international law. An economic community cannot function solely on the basis of economic rules; attention must also be paid to the rules for settling cross-border disputes. Consequently, considerable attention is given to the subject within the European Union (EU)1 and other economic communities.2

Outsiders in their own nation: Electoral violence and politics of ‘internal’ displacement in Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-240
Author(s):  
Roseanne Njiru
Keyword(s):  
Forced Migration ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Electoral Violence ◽  
National Boundaries

This article foregrounds the overlapping continuum of local to global fault lines that structure the human security experiences of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kenya. Drawing on data from the 2007–2008 electoral violence-induced displacement of ethnic minorities in the Rift Valley region, the article discusses how the intersections of ethnicity, national politics, land rights, and global humanitarian politics on displacement positioned IDPs as outsiders in their own nation and how this shapes their ability to live secure lives. By so doing, the study transcends nation-state border focused forced migration to question the relevance of dichotomizing IDPs and refugees, which shapes their protection. The author argues for the need to critically examine the less visible and fluid borders which displace people from their homelands in order to address the human security of all who are forced to flee from their homes regardless of whether they have crossed national boundaries.

Globalization and Financial Blow-ups in the Semi-Periphery: Perspectives on Turkey's Financial Crisis Of 1994

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziya Öniş
Keyword(s):  
International Political Economy ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Financial Deregulation ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Capital Outflows ◽  
Major Increase ◽  
National Boundaries

Globalization versus the nation state has emerged as one of the central areas of controversy and debate in the field of international political economy in the context of the 1990s. The pace of technological change, the speeding up of communications and the extent of international economic integration have brought into question the effectiveness of many traditional national economic instruments. A number of investigators point towards the erosion of economic sovereignty and question the nation state as the main building block of governance. It is undoubtedly the case that the nation state is under pressure; yet it is also the case that the process of globalization is much more in evidence in some areas than others. Whilst we observe significant increases in the volume of trade and foreign direct investment over the past decade, the process of globalization has arguably proceeded further than anywhere else in the sphere of financial capital. Computerization, advanced telecommunications, and associated pressures for financial deregulation have resulted in a major increase in both the scale and mobility of financial capital across national boundaries. Capital is now so mobile that markets will ensure that holders of financial assets receive broadly the same risk adjusted real return anywhere. Any country that offers significantly lower returns will experience capital outflows and a rapidly depreciating exchange rate. It is now virtually impossible for countries to return to exchange controls as an instrument of economic regulation.

scholarly journals Regions, borders, and social policy

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Harlan Koff ◽  
Carmen Maganda
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Socioeconomic Rights ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Coordination Policy

This first issue of Volume Four of Regions & Cohesion continues a trend of articles that gained momentum in Volume Three, focusing on the territorial aspects of welfare in social cohesion debates. The Summer 2013 issue of the journal presented a collection of articles that specifically discussed the role of borders and border policies in social cohesion politics. Although this collection was not intended to be presented as a thematically specific issue, the simultaneous arrival of these pieces highlighted the importance of borders in defining the territorial limits of cohesion and the ensuing renegotiation of these limits in political debates. For example, the article by Irina S. Burlacu and Cathal O’Donoghue focused on the impacts of the European Union’s social security coordination policy on the welfare of cross-border workers in Belgium and Luxembourg. The article illustrated the limits of this regional policy as cross-border workers do not receive equal treatment compared to domestic workers in the country of employment. Similarly, an article by Franz Clément in the same issue analyzed the “socio-political representation” of cross-border workers and discusses how such workers can mobilize for socioeconomic rights in institutions aimed at worker protection (such as professional associations, trade unions, etc.). Both articles show that despite formal regionalization of legislation concerning social rights and representation, national boundaries clearly present challenges to cross-border workers who have difficulty negotiating rights in both their country of employment and country of residence.

scholarly journals Globalization

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
John A. Pennell
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Social Process ◽  
International Economy ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The 1960S

Since the 1960s, the world has witnessed an increasing fragmentationof the production process across national boundaries; the emergence oftransnational (as opposed to multinational) corporations; the rise of newsocial movements; and heightened cross-border flows of capital andlabor. As a result of these developments, scholars and practitioners havesought to understand what has brought about these changes. Is globalizationthe culprit, or is it simply a myth? If globalization is a reality, whatdoes it entail and how does it affect the realms of economy, polityy andsociety? In Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson’s Globalization inQuestion: The International Economy and the Possibilities ofGovernance (1 996); James H. Mittelman’s (Ed.) Globalization: CriticalReflections (1 996); and Malcolm Waters’ Globalization (1 999, the struggleto answer these questions and many others is undertaken.’This article critiques the major points presented by each author inregard to the questions asked above. Each author’s views on globalizationas it relates to the economy, the state, and culture will be examined.Furthermore, this article will show that while all three works have theirdrawbacks and shortcomings, it is recommended that each book be readto gain an understanding of the wide range of empirical and theoreticalperspectives on globalization. The conclusion will offer suggestions onareas requiring more in-depth inquiry.What Is Globalization?While Mittelman, as well as Hirst and Thompson, discuss globalizationprimarily in terms of economic processes, Waters sees globalizationas driven by social or cultural processes. According to him, globalizationis a “social process in which the constraints of geography on social andcultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasinglyaware that they are receding” (p. 3). Waters contends that in a truly ...

scholarly journals Developing the concept of society: Institutional domains, regimes of inequalities and complex systems in a global era

2020 ◽  
pp. 001139212093294
Author(s):  
Sylvia Walby
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Complexity Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Multiple Regimes ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

This article develops the concept of society to meet the challenge of cross-border and global processes. Global processes have made visible the inadequacy of interpreting the concept of society as if it were a nation-state, since there is a lack of congruence of institutional domains (economy, polity, civil society, violence) and regimes of inequality (class, gender, ethnicity). The article engages with two strands of intellectual heritage in sociological analysis of society as a macro concept: the differentiation of institutions and the relations of inequality. The concepts of society and societalisation are developed by hybridising these two approaches rather than selecting only one or the other. To achieve this, the concept of system is developed by drawing on complexity science. This enables the simultaneous analysis of differentiated institutional domains (economy, polity, violence, civil society) and multiple regimes of inequality without reductionism. In turn, this facilitates the fluent theorisation of variations in the temporal and spatial reach of social systems.

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