Charting Transnational Fields: Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge (Routledge Research in Transnationalism) - Softcover

 
9781032173856: Charting Transnational Fields: Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge (Routledge Research in Transnationalism)
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ISBN 10: 1032173858 ISBN 13: 9781032173856
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation, standardization, and certification, or supranational political structures. These transnational phenomena form part of general political struggles that legitimate social relationships in and beyond the nation-state.

Part 1 on methodological foundations discusses the consequences of Bourdieu’s epistemology and methodology for theorizing and investigating transnational phenomena. The contributions show the importance of field-theoretical concepts for post-national insights. Part 2 on investigating political fields presents exemplary case studies in diverse research areas such as colonial imperialism, international academic rankings, European policy fields, and local school policy. While focusing on their research objects, the contributions also give an insight into the mechanisms involved in processes of transnationalization.

The volume is an invitation for sociologists, political scientists, and scholars in adjacent research areas to engage with reflexive and relational research practice and to further develop field-theoretical thought.

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About the Author

Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg is Assistant Professor at Potsdam University, Germany.

Stefan Bernhard is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032173858
ISBN 13 
9781032173856
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
276
Editor
Schmidt-Wellenburg Christian, Bernhard Stefan

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