Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations of space that these processes both reflect and reproduce.Transnational Spaces takes a innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.
Author(s): Peter Jackson
Edition: 1
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 208
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction: the spaces of transnationality......Page 14
Mexican migration and the social space of postmodernism......Page 37
It's hip to be Asian: the local and global networks of Asian fashion entrepreneurs in London......Page 53
Tracing transnationalities through commodity culture: a case study of British-South Asian fashion......Page 73
Returning, remitting, reshaping: Non-Resident Indians and the transformation of society and space in Punjab, India......Page 91
Transnational migration and the geographical imperative......Page 117
Transnationalism in the margins: hegemony and the shadow state......Page 135
Constructing masculinities in transnational space: Singapore men on the 'regional beat'......Page 160
A European space for transnationalism?......Page 177
Index......Page 196
