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  • Transnational Social Protection

    Social Welfare across National Borders

    by Peggy Levitt, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Ruxandra Paul, Erica Dobbs ...
    Argues that a new set of transnational social welfare arrangements has emerged that challenge traditional social welfare provision based on national citizenship and residence. The idea that social rights are something we are eligible for based on where we live or where we are citizens is out-of-date. In Transnational Social Protection, Peggy Levitt, Erica Dobbs, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, and Ruxandra ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Museums in a time of Migration : Rethinking museums' roles, representations, collections, and collaborations

    by Peggy Levitt ...
    Migration är ett av vår tids tongivande fenomen och har djupgående effekter i samhället. Museerna kan i dess spår inta en roll med potential att påverka vår förståelse av världen.När museer är som bäst utgör de platser där människor kan utforska transnationella kontakter, migrationens verkligheter och mänskliga rättigheter. Därigenom blir de relevanta som kulturinstitutioner och kan bidra till ... Read more

    $17.96 USD

  • Diasporas

    Concepts, Intersections, Identities

    by Jeffrey Lesser, Homi Bhabha, Peter Mandaville, Terrance Lyons, Claire Dwyer, Manuel Vasquez, Jaine Beswick, Karim H Karim, Doctor Daniela Berghahn, Ian Cook, Tariq Modood, Toshio Watanbe, Paul Gilroy, Doctor Larissa Remennick, Gerd Baumann, Professor Martin Baumann, David Richardson, Professor Robin Cohen, Ulirke Meinhof, Sara Wills, Professor Flemming Christiansen, Junior Professor Doctor Kira Kosnick, Doctor Dibyesh Anand, Sanaz Raji, Anastasia Christou, Juan Flores, Madeleine Wong, Professor Russell King, Pnina Werbner, Susheila Nasta, Doctor James Procter, Helen Gilbert, Victoria Bernal, Avtar Brah, Khachig Tololyan, Peggy Levitt, Marie Gillespie, Philip Crang, Mark Johnson, Nicholas Van Hear, Virinder Kalra, Professor Graham Huggan, Steven Vertovec, Vijay Agnew, Simon Turner, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali ...
    Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Artifacts and Allegiances

    How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display

    by Peggy Levitt ...
    What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a country’s cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of particular cities help explain how museums represent diversity? Artifacts and Allegiances takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. Based on firsthand conversations with museum directors, curators ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Books, Bodies and Bronzes

    Comparing Sites of Global Citizenship Creation

    Edited by Pál Nyíri, Peggy Levitt ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    One out of every seven people in the world today is on the move, voluntarily and involuntarily, within countries and between them. More and more people belong to several communities at once and yet the social contract between state and citizen is still bounded by questions of nationality. Where will the cultural building blocks come from with which we can imagine a different kind of nation, and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Links to the Diasporic Homeland

    Second Generation and Ancestral 'Return' Mobilities

    Edited by Russell King, Anastasia Christou, Peggy Levitt ...
    This book examines return mobilities to and from ancestral homelands of the second generation and beyond. It presents cutting-edge empirical research framed within the mobilities, transnational and return migration/diaspora paradigms on a trans/local and global scale. The book is unique in presenting not only a variety of return movements, including short-term visits and longer-term return ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Religion on the Edge

    De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion

    Edited by Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge, Peggy Levitt, David Smilde ...
    The thirteen essays in this volume challenge conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social consequences. Religion on the Edge offers groundbreaking new methodologies and models, bringing to ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism

    Edited by Ato Quayson, Girish Daswani ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
    A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism offers a ground-breaking combined discussion of the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide interdisciplinary perspectives that link together the concepts in new and important ways.A wide-ranging collection which reviews the most significant developments and provides valuable insights into current ... Read more

    $231.95 USD

  • The Crises of Multiculturalism

    Racism in a Neoliberal Age

    by Alana Lentin, Gavan Titley ...
    Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, mediaeval practices subverting national 'ways of life' and universal values.This important new ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Key Concepts in Political Geography

    by Carolyn Gallaher, Mary Gilmartin, Alison Mountz, Peter Shirlow, Carl T Dahlman ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive reader for my political geography course. Good summaries at the end, and articles include effective case study examples."- Rachel Paul, Western Washington University"A very useful and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in political geography. This book provides useful context not just for ′traditional′ political geography modules, but also those examining broader issues of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Transnationalism

    by Steven Vertovec ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are fundamentally ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The New Blackwell Companion to The City

    Edited by Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.The most interdisciplinary collection of its kindProvides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the fieldUses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadlyIncludes ... Read more

    $46.00 USD