The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520293037 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her award-winning publications include Religion, Race, Rights: Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law and Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches. Philip C. Eve Darian-Smith is Professor and former Chair in Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. McCarty, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary scholar in Global Studies, Universi
They show how global processes manifest at multiple levels—transnational, regional, national, and local—all of which are interconnected and mutually constitutive. This book takes readers through the steps of thinking like a global scholar in theoretical, methodological, and practical terms, and it explains the implications of global perspectives for research design.. The authors demonstrate how the global can be studied from a local perspective and vice versa. The ability to deploy interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives that speak to interconnected global dimensions is critical if one’s work is to be relevant and applicable to the emerging global-scale issues of our time. The Global Turn is a guide for students and scholars across all areas of the social sciences and humanities who wish to embark on global-studies research projects
Drawing on their long experience in global studies, the authors show how no academic discipline has remained untouched by the transformations of our global age. A must-read for students and scholars who are thinking and working globally."--Dominic Sachsenmaier, Professor, Department of Sinology and Department of History, University of Gottingen . It provides pathways for research for anyone working on issues related to our increasingly global milieu."--Mark Juergensmeyer, editor of Thinking Globally: A Global Studies Reader "Globalization respects no borders--between countries or between disciplines. They bring to it an entirely fresh perspective, simultaneously laying out a theoretical framework, a methodological prospectus, and, most of all, a promise to decenter knowledge production from its received, often sterile, hegemonic centers." --John Comaroff , Hugh K. From the Inside Flap"We have been waiting for