Globalization and Transnationalism

Due to globalization, cultural spaces are now developing with no tangible connection to geographical place. The territorial logic traditionally used to underpin architecture and envision our built environment is being radically altered, forcing the adoption of a new method of conceptualizing space/geography and what constitutes architectural practice. Construction techniques, design sensibilities, and cultural identities are being transformed as technology transports us to places that were previously unreachable. The resultant “globalized” architect must become more than just an artful visionary, but also a master of the art of the political nudge willing to act within multiple mediums and at the simultaneous scales of a chaotic new world disorder.Though fearless they must also be responsible, inherently understanding the necessity to align bold visions with the mundane details of the everyday in ways that are culturally flexible and accepting of change.The potential for what must be considered the legitimate practice of the architect must move from a purely material venue to one more directly engaged in the chaos of the larger economic, political, and social spheres of a globalizing world. The issues and possible interactions with globalization contained in this text exemplify ways that architecture is transforming into a more flexible and fluid interdisciplinary version of its traditional self in order to rise to challenges of this new international terrain. A theme runs throughout in the form of a call: that architects must conceptually reconstruct their frames of reference to better align with the demands of a rapidly globalizing world.

This paper is a review of Mohsin Hamid's Exit WEST. It refers to the main characters' physical journey from their unnamed country to the WEST in search of freedom and safety and also refers to the characters' relationship along with their personality. It provides reasons for the characters' physical journey and also inner journey and finally comments on the outcomes of their journey from both aspects.

This article looks at the heightened role of universities in the global knowledge age. Flows of people, ideas, and also capital in the academic realm continue to multiply, propelling global connectedness and contributing to the reshuling of the hitherto prevailing political orders. Universities are understood as places where these lows are instigated and controlled. The article adds insight to the ield of global higher education by emphasizing universities in the Global South, to better understand their role in shaping processes of globalization. Four arguments guide the reader, the irst of which explains how universities have been discursively rescaled. The second argument looks at university-state relations and increased institutional power. Differentiation in the higher-education landscape and academic hierarchies are examined in the third part, while section four reveals shortcomings of mobility igures aggregated at national level.

Der Artikel thematisiert die zunehmende Bedeutung von Universitäten im Zeitalter der glo-balen Wissenslandschaft. Akademische Mobilität, der Austausch von Wissen und die damit verbundenen Kapitalströme tragen erheblich zur globalen Vernetzung und zur Neuordnung der Weltpolitik bei. Universitäten werden als Orte verstanden, an denen diese grenzüberschrei-tenden Prozesse initiiert und kontrolliert werden. Im Fokus stehen hier Universitäten im globa-len Süden, was Diskussionen über deren Rolle in Globalisierungsprozessen anregt und somit das Spektrum der globalen Hochschulforschung erweitert. Der Artikel gliedert sich in vier Teile, wobei sich der erste mit einer diskursiven Neuausrichtung befasst. Zweitens werden die Bezie-hungen zwischen Universität und Staat vor dem Hintergrund einer Portalperspektive skizziert, bevor im dritten Teil die Relevanz von Diferenzierung und akademischen Hierarchien erklärt wird. Das letzte Argument stellt die Aussagekraft von nationalen Mobilitätsstatistiken in Frage.

In this article, we examine identity formation processes among French Muslims from former North African French colonies, focusing on Algeria. France's violent colonial presence in Algeria has put an indelible effect on three generations of French of Algerian origin, as they have struggled to survive despite political pressures and cultural demands in post-colonial France. Using several theories and concepts pertaining identity formation among colonial subjects, including Stuart Hall's discussion of 'self-othering,' Frantz Fanon's Manichaean notions of 'black' and 'white' identity formations, and W.E.B. Du Bois' concept of 'double consciousness,' we first analyse formation of a hybrid identity among three generations of French Muslims. Next, we focus on the torturous journey of French Muslim women particularly related to the hijab controversy, as they oscillate between resistance and assimilation under French Republic's Laïcité laws. We further examine the intersectionality of gender-based, religious and rural/tribal identities in Algeria, signified by two clearly delineated 'gendered' public and private spaces, and boundary erosions between the two in post-colonial France. We conclude that under the false pretence of 'gender equality,' in its attempt to unveil Muslim women the French government is using their bodies as a cultural battleground to subject them to total submission and assimilation.

Die Kritische Sozialwissenschaft hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten wichtige Beiträge zur Erforschung der Globalisierung geleistet. In diesem Band sind die zentralen Themen aufgegriffen. Zu den brennenden aktuellen Themen, die von kritischen Wissenschaftler_innen mit Blick auf die Globalisierungsfolgen bearbeitet wurden, gehören die politisch-ökonomische Rolle der USA, die sich verändernden Nord-Süd-Beziehungen, die globale Finanzkrise, der Wandel betrieblicher Interessenvertretung und sich wandelnde Geschlechter- und Reproduktionsverhältnisse.

"The global economic scenario seems increasingly characterized by an integrated financial systems resulting from the processes of globalization and liberalization of foreign exchange (with the relative capillary movement of capitals also at transnational level). In addition there is an increasingly diversified spread of banking and quasi-banking services based in tax havens in order to offer the market operational tools to meet various needs, tax evasion included. Operations thus become "off-shore", that is carried out in legal/virtual spaces separating the real path of economic transactions by legal place in which they were conducted, removing the burden of taxation from the place where they actually took place and setting a new geography of movements of capitals completely decoupled from production sites.
That of tax havens is a growing phenomenon and the aim of the paper is to analyze its extent, to understand how this practice is helping to redefine the economic spaces, creating new geographies of financial assets.
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One of the consequences of international migration and the permanent settlement of immigrants in southern EU countries is the growing number of inter-country marriages and the formation of transnational families. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, this article examines patterns of endogamy and exogamy (i.e., marriage within/outside a particular group or category) among African immigrants in Catalonia, focusing on bi-national Senegalese– and Gambian–Spanish couples. Socio-demographic profiles, transnationality, the dynamics of cultural change or retention, and the formation of transcultural identities are explored. The evidence presented suggests that social-class factors are more important than cultural origins in patterns of endogamy and exogamy, in the dynamics of living together and in the bringing-up of children of mixed unions. Such a conclusion negates culturalists’ explanations of endogamy and exogamy while, at the same time, emphasising the role of social actors as active subjects in these processes. I further argue that mixed couples and their offspring deal—to a greater or lesser extent—with multiple localisations and cultural backgrounds (i.e. here and there), rather than experiencing a ‘clash between two cultures’. Therefore, it would be a mistake to pretend that multicultural links do not exist and that they cannot be revitalised and functional. The paper starts and ends by addressing the complexities of processes of interculturalism, resisting an interpretation of hybridity and segregation as contradictory or exclusive realities.

This article examines how The wealth of nations (1776) was transformed into an amorphous text regarding the imperial question throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Adam Smith had left behind an ambiguous legacy on the subject of empire: a legacy that left long-term effects upon subsequent British imperial debates. In his chapter on colonies, Smith had proposed both a scheme for the gradual devolution of the British empire and a theoretical scheme for imperial federation. In response to the growing global popularity of protectionism and imperial expansionism, the rapid development of new tools of globalization, and the frequent onset of economic downturns throughout the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, turn-of-the-century proponents of British imperial federation formed into a formidable opposition to England's prevailing free trade orthodoxy – Cobdenism – a free trade ideology which famously expanded upon the anti-imperial dimensions of The wealth of nations. Ironically, at the turn of the century many advocates for imperial federation also turned to Smith for their intellectual inspiration. Adam Smith thus became an advocate of empire, and his advocacy left an indelible intellectual mark upon the burgeoning British imperial crisis.

Since the end of the 1980s the development of theories of cultural globaliza- tion, in the Anglo-Saxon academic !eld, has resulted in a deep transformation in the ways of thinking media internationalization. The critical political economy of communication, which since the 1960s has played a key role in analysing media internationalization, has been supplanted by disciplines that until the late1980s had rarely addressed the international dimensions of media.
Theories of cultural globalization, as we will try to show here, are the product of a convergence in theory among cultural studies, anthropology and sociology, which regardless of their disciplinary differences tend to think of the cultural consequences of globalization along the same lines. As such, they propose a new dominant paradigm to apprehend the consequences of media internationalization – a paradigm which has deconstructed the perspectives of political economy and replaced them with a radically di"erent vision.
The aim of this chapter is to show, through some of the key texts, how these theories of cultural globalization have emerged and to underline some of the major ruptures that they have entailed in the ways of thinking media internationalization.

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century, as well as confronting long-standing intractable urban problems and dilemmas. This Companion provides cutting-edge critical review and synthesis of recent conceptual, policy and practical developments within the field. With contributions from 72 international experts within the field, it explores the meaning of ‘urban regeneration’ in differing national contexts, asking questions and providing informed discussion and analyses to illuminate how an apparently disparate field of research, policy and practice can be rendered coherent, drawing out common themes and significant differences. The Companion is divided into six parts, exploring: globalization and neo-liberal perspectives on urban regeneration; emerging econceptualizations of regeneration; public infrastructure and public space;
housing and cosmopolitan communities; community centred regeneration; and culture-led regeneration. The concluding chapter considers the future of urban regeneration and proposes a nine-point research agenda. This Companion assembles a diversity of approaches and insights in one comprehensive volume to provide a state-of-the-art review of the field. It is a valuable resource for both advanced undergraduate
and postgraduate students in Urban Planning, Built Environment, Urban Studies and Urban Regeneration, as well as academics, practitioners and politicians.

The main objective of this research paper is to measure the impact of globalization on poverty in Pakistan. Poverty is world biggest curse in the past and present and different organization and institutions of the world are trying to eradicate it from the world. Globalization and poverty related in world and also in Pakistan. This study examines the impact of globalization on poverty in Pakistan. We used secondary data because it is more reliable and applied the ARDL approach to draw empirical results which reveal that trade openness, foreign direct investment and gross domestic product have negative relations with poverty while population and external debt has positive relationship with poverty. This study recommends that using globalization as a tool and making such policies that especially for the poor's will help government to eliminate poverty from Pakistan.

This article demonstrates historically and statistically that conversionary Protestants (CPs) heavily influenced the rise and spread of stable democracy around the world. It argues that CPs were a crucial catalyst initiating the development and spread of religious liberty, mass education, mass printing, newspapers, voluntary organizations, and colonial reforms, thereby creating the conditions that made stable democracy more likely. Statistically, the historic prevalence of Protestant missionaries explains about half the variation in democracy in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania and removes the impact of most variables that dominate current statistical research about democracy. The association between Protestant missions and democracy is consistent in different continents and subsamples, and it is robust to more than 50 controls and to instrumental variable analyses.

Every organization is evolving in nature and change is inevitable for improving performance and productivity. The planet is suffering due to global pandemic and organizations as well; changes in technology, changes in structure, and changes in goals accelerating swiftly and posturing the major challenges to the leaders. This pandemic will bring many new policies, innovation, adaptation, and practices through revolutionary innovation in the Human Resource (HR) department. The prevailing industry will have transformation through the blessings of technology and managerial practice will be done through online to offline & cloud-based practice which will lead complete version of e-management. Due to this crisis, organizations will change many of the HR practices such as purpose, process, people management, performance, and so on. The objective of this study is to identify the transitions in HR practices and initiatives taken to resolve the problem at the least cost. This paper is mainly qualitative in nature and systematic factors are engrossed from different literature in recent times. The strategic HR transition will help an organization for creating sustainable HR practices and also generate valuable managerial practice which will be carried in the long run.

Transnationalism emerged as a critique and a move away from the assimilationist paradigm to understand how migrants were changing, while they were also shaping their new countries and former homelands. While the assimilationist model was focusing on what was happening in the receiving country, the scholarship on transnationalism changed the lens towards migrants themselves and some of their simultaneous relationships in their place of residence, their former homeland as well as other places where they may have family members and friends. This chapter gives an overview of the literature; identifies different forms and scales of transnationalism and suggests future directions for transnational migration research.

The book is innovative in that it applies legal concepts to economic analysis.  It explains that modern economies require the existence of a specific legal system to operate.  The analysis builds on the prior work of institutional economists.  It brings it forward by integrating what was missing: the legal component. Taking its distance from the economic analysis of law, it provides a legal analysis of economics.  It is superior in this regard because real life economic actors must abide by legal rules.  Their economic activity is dependent on the existence of rules making it possible, something present economic analyses neglect completely.  Without States and the services they provide (protection services, a legal system, property rights, justice, roads, contract enforcement, and so on), economic activity cannot flourish.  The book concentrates on the particular importance of property rights.  They always played a key role in economic development.  They now play a key role in the operation of a global economy because of the surge of multinationals built on the right of property concentrated via corporations. The role of corporate law in the reconfiguration of the power system from a State System to a Global Power System is explained.
The book is of interest for all social scientists interested in the operation of our present world economy and in globalization generally.  It provides new insight on how to address global issues, in particular global climate change, which is a direct consequence of the spreading of a world economy over a divided State System.

Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowledge about the world as a collection of distinct nation-states. As neoliberal reforms took hold in the 1980s, visions of the world made popular within area studies and international studies found themselves challenged by ideas and educational policies that originated in business schools and international financial institutions. Academics within these institutions reimagined the world instead as a single global market and higher education as a commodity to be bought and sold. By the 1990s, American universities embraced this language of globalization, and globalization eventually became the organizing logic of higher education. In Making the World Global Isaac A. Kamola examines how the relationships among universities, the American state, philanthropic organizations, and international financial institutions created the conditions that made it possible to imagine the world as global. Examining the Center for International Studies, Harvard Business School, the World Bank, the Social Science Research Council, and NYU, Kamola demonstrates that how we imagine the world is always symptomatic of the material relations within which knowledge is produced.

In this essay, I examine Japan's mixed-race identity (i.e. hafu) and negotiation in Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan. This essay is concerned with Japaneseness as a theoretical and conceptual framework in order to investigate how the dominant homogeneous discourse of Japaneseness marginalizes or positions hafu individuals in contemporary Japan. Simultaneously, this essay illuminates the possibilities to further interrogate hafu identity through a close reading of Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan. Overall, the goal of this essay is to critique and facilitate scholarly conversations about the relationality between Japaneseness and hafu identity.

This essay is an expanded, Spanish language version of my earlier article on Bartra. "La jaula de la condición postmexicana" discusses the concepts of postnationalism and the “post Mexican condition” in Roger Bartra’s deconstruction of homogeneity in Mexican identity and nationalism. Bartra is a well known Mexican sociologist and anthropologist who bases his analyses of Mexican society on postmodern theory. His criticism of Mexican intellectuals and their invention of Mexican identity has made him an important figure in cultural studies. In his discussions of ethnicity, Bartra is critical of attempts to assimilate indigenous communities into a national culture, and is also skeptical of the segregation of indigenous communities based on an equivocal notion of multiculturalism following U.S. models. He cites the Zapatista uprising as an example of the decline of nationalist politics and identity. This article also examines Bartra’s position regarding Mexico’s transition to democracy, in particular his
notion of civil society’s role in political legitimation and his opposition to any populist or nationalist movements. His belief that Mexican society has entered a postnational condition, his postmodern disenchantment, and his distrust of nationalist and populist traditions in Mexico, have shaped his view of the ongoing crises of legitimation.
This article compares Bartra’s views to two other prominent intellectuals in Mexico: Néstor García Canclini and Carlos Monsiváis. This paper concludes that Bartra’s postmodernist standpoint has limited his ability to recognize the negative impacts of globalization and the transnationalization of culture, as well as the rise of the neoliberal
state, on Mexico’s democratic transition. In this extended version I also examine Bartra's role in the 2006 elections in Mexico and his views on populism and nationalism. In particular I criticize his reading of Ernesto Laclau's book On Populist Reason.

This article analyses the changing trends of globalization and modernity that transform the social and individual
perceptions. In postcolonial era, globalization proves to be an impetus that precipitates the tension between tradition and modernity. This article studies the competing forces of tradition and modernity as dramatized in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron (2000). The novel is a playful account of past memories revisited and preserved by family lore. It is also an appropriation of those traditional views in the modern scene by the members of new generation. Therefore, the novel becomes a microcosm of traditional versus modern values conceived by the family members of Dard-e-dil family. The novel is an effective display of past Muslim cultural and political glory yet it revisits the current issues of identity,
displacement and immigration. The article situates the story of Dard-e-dils within the theoretical context of globalization
and postcolonialism, and reads the flux and change that the Pakistani fiction reflects as it enters a new realm of changed
national, social and individual perception in the post–partition and postcolonial era.

"This book offers annotated translations of documents touching on Dutch admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge and his voyage to Asia between 1605 and 1608. These translations are aimed at a contemporary English-speaking Asian readership interested in the early modern history of European trade, warfare and expansion in Southeast Asia with a focus on Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Researchers specialising in early European colonialism, international law, international relations, security studies, and diplomatic history will also find that the documents translated in this volume offer new and unfamiliar perspectives. Materlieff’s business acumen, military and diplomataic prowess as well as his vision of empire all have implications for examining not only European expansion into Southeast Asia, but also into other regions at large, including especially south Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Admiral Matelieff was a director of the Rotterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) formed in 1602. He was appointed fleet commander on one of the company’s first voyages to Asia. Matelieff’s mission was both commercial and military: he launched a major sea-borne attack on the Portuguese colony of Melaka, arranged for the signing of treaties with the rulers of Johor, Aceh and Ternate, and founded the first Dutch fort on the island of Ternate. His endeavours, however, to open the Chinese market for the Dutch company proved unsuccessful.
Following his return to the Dutch Republic in September 1608, Matelieff penned a series of memorials and letters. In these he advanced recommendations for changing the way the company organized its fleets and conducted business. More importantly he offered  his Dutch contemporaries a vision of empire in Asia. The materials contained in this volume offer important observations of a perceptive analyst who was also determined to grasp the political and economic structures of Asia, and also of inter-state relations in across this vast region. At a time of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, French and English engagement in Southeast Asia, Matelieff sought to critically assess and strategize on the ways in which Europeans were increasingly engaging with Asian polities and their rulers.

This book will be released for sale in Australasia and Europe in June 2014 and available in the Americas after September 2014
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Cross-national empirical research consistently suggests that, on average, former British colonies are both more democratic and have more stable democratic transitions. I argue that former British colonies are distinct not because Great Britain was a democracy – so were France and Belgium during the late 19th and early 20th century. Nor were the British more altruistic. However, British colonial elites were more divided and thus more constrained. In particular, religious groups were more independent from state control in British colonies than in historically-Catholic colonies (i.e., colonies of France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Italy). Initially the British restricted missions in their colonies, but Evangelical Protestants forced the British to allow religious liberty in 1813. Protestants were not able to win religious liberty in most other European colonizers during the entire period of colonization.
    Protestant missionaries were central to expanding formal education in the colonies because they wanted people to read the Bible in their own language. Governments wanted a small educated elite that they could control. Other religious groups invested in mass vernacular education primarily when competing with Protestants.
    Missionaries also constrained colonial abuses when they were independent from state control (i.e., chose their own leaders and raised their own funds). If colonial exploitation was extreme, it angered indigenous people against the West and made mission work difficult. Thus missionaries had incentive to fight abuses. Other colonial elites had no incentive to expose their abuses, and indigenous people had little power in the colonizing state. This left missionaries in a unique bridging position. Non-state missionaries also fostered institutions outside state control, institutions that nationalist leaders later used to challenge British colonization and birth political parties.
    Statistical analysis confirms the centrality of missions in expanding education and fostering democracy. Controlling for Protestant missions removes the association between democracy and British colonization, other “Protestant” colonization, percent European, percent Muslim, being an island nation, and being a landlocked nation. Other controls (such as current GDP, and current education enrollments) do not remove the strong positive association between Protestant missions and democracy.

The debate over hybrid identities at the border calls for an analysis of the
relationship between economic and cultural globalization in the construction of social identities, whether hybrid, transnational, national, regional, or local. Identities have probably always tended toward hybridity in the borderlands, and the impacts of globalized circuits of production, homogenized consumer patterns, media images, mass migration, and incessant travel have intensified and accelerated a process as old as the bordered nation-state itself, but often with unforeseen consequences. In tracing contemporary debates about
hybrid identities and borderlands, this chapter will also make a distinction between more culturally orientated hybrid identities and more politically related transnational identities. It will also focus on the question of the US-Mexico border itself and the conflicts rotating around it. As well as distinguishing between hybridity and transnationalism, two
separate but related processes produced by globalization, this chapter
endeavors to theorize the effects on both sides of the border, no matter how
asymmetric the embedded power relationship that the border itself represents.
Its theoretical perspective is infl uenced by the ongoing debate between
poststructuralist Marxist, postcolonialist, and cultural studies-based border theorists over the emancipatory potential of hybrid, transnational, or indeed any type of “identity,” individual or collective, to overcome the present global rigidification of borders between the “advanced” capitalist North and the “emerging” capitalist South. Methodologically, the chapter is informed by four years of research work in Ciudad Juarez, the capital of the Mexican maquiladora industry and twin city of El Paso, Texas, on the relationship between globalization, the maquiladora export industry, and the hypothetical emergence of transnational identities in those borderlands.

The present study investigates the sociolinguistics of globalisation
and performance, focusing on the linguistic appropriation of
Jamaican Creole (JC) by white reggae artists in reggae performances
and interviews.1 By adopting a multi-faceted approach including a
phonetic, morpho-syntactic, and lexical analysis of the singing and
speaking style of seven reggae artists and bands from the USA,
Bermuda, and Europe, this study explores the similarities and differences
between on- and offstage uses of Jamaican Creole, and
whether the singers’ access and exposure to this variety as well
as the topic of the song has an effect on their language behaviour.
The findings provide evidence for the claim that Jamaican Creole
has developed into a prestigious linguistic resource in non-Jamaican
artists’ performances of a global reggae persona, both on- and
offstage.

MA Thesis in Maritime History (Faculty of Letters, Lisbon University FLUL, 2014) - revised version

The present thesis Shipwrecks of the “Carreira da Índia” (1595-1623) – Sources
for the Study in Portuguese Maritime History deals with factors which caused losses of
ships of the Carreira da Índia which linked the European metropolis Lisbon with its
Goa based Estado da Índia between 1595 and 1623. Although Portuguese-Asiatic
shipping was formally separated from the Habsburg Empire during the Union of the
Two Iberian Crowns (1580-1640), the European policies of the Spanish Kings,
especially towards the United Provinces and the Netherlands had its influence and
effects on the Portuguese side.
Shipwrecks, either on the outward bound or homeward bound voyages had
occurred for various reasons since the early days of the Carreira da Índia yet the
emergence of the two private European Companies, the Dutch United East India
Company (founded in 1602) and the British East India Company (founded in 1600)
were a new momentum by which’s characteristics of concurrence and struggle for
supremacy of the European-Asiatic spice trade, losses of Portuguese ships were caused
by planned and executed military operations as well.
Focusing on the geographical region of the Mozambique Channel in which the
losses have taken place, the thesis combines a historiographical approach with records
of underwater archaeology analyzing questions related to the political environment and
planed military operations in which shipwrecks have occurred as well as causes of
shipwrecks observing ship building and design modifications and effects related to
economic patterns such as the monetary flows of the Portuguese outward bound
shipping during the period of observation.

Naufragios da Careira da Índia (1595-1623)

This edited collection ambitions to highlight the varieties of reception of Hallyu products (K-pop music and K-drama, webtoons and manhwa, video games ) by global youth audiences in historically situated contexts (both local and national). Considering Hallyu as a transnational phenomenon, being localized in various social, economic, and cultural settings, being disseminated through global media and networks, this edited collection aims at gathering original theoretical and field research to understand better the dynamic of glocalization of the reception of Hallyu among its many youth audiences around the world.

Authors Guidelines
The edited collection aims at being interdisciplinary (it will welcome chapters from social sciences, marketing, media studies, cultural studies, popular studies, Hallyu studies, etc.). Theoretical discussion, as well as fieldworks, are welcome. We also encourage comparative chapters.

The chapters should be between 6000 and 8000 words (including references and footnotes). For editorial guidelines, please see: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/YOGO.pdf


Timeline
• Submission of proposals (500 words maximum): December 2022
• Answer to the authors: February 2023
• First versions of the chapters (6000/8000 words maximum): July 2023
• Remarks to the authors: September 2023
• Second versions of the chapters: December 2023
• Submission of the manuscript to Brill: March 2024
• Date of publication: Fall 2024

The submissions should jointly be sent to
Vincenzo CICCHELLI: vincenzo.cicchelli@ceped.org
Siyeun MOON: sissi65@sookmyung.ac.kr
Sylvie OCTOBRE: sylvie.octobre@culture.gouv.fr

Described by locals as Singapore’s ‘Little Thailand’, the Golden Mile Complex is known as an ethnic enclave for Thai persons. The environment of the Golden Mile Complex is described as a liminoid space, or a ‘space out of place’, where Thai cultural identity, language and religious beliefs appear to be dominant, while simultaneously suspending the everyday realities of the wider Singaporean society that surrounds it. Despite being viewed as a cultural sanctuary for many Thais, the building is also perceived as an ethnic enclosure that tends to isolate those working or living in it because of its association with ‘low-end globalization’. The urban marginality of the Golden Mile Complex and its Thai community, therefore, reflects a broader ongoing and ambivalent social-cultural divide between Singaporeans and large numbers of foreign workers, who form part of a transnational ‘precariat’ and face substantial challenges to their economic and social security.

This report reviews and categorizes the enormous corpus of knowledge produced by American academic and policy institutions about U.S. relations with the Middle East and other Islamic actors in the international arena. The report identifies five epistemic communities – conservatives, neoconservatives, realists, liberals and the left – and analyzes their discourses and policy recommendations. Finally, the policies that these epistemic communities recommended are evaluated and assessed. The author recommends a mixed-paradigmatic approach that will not only make the United States more effective in the Middle East but also underscore its continuing relevance to the security and the stability of the region and the global order.

In the past few years, both assimilationist and multiculturalist approaches to the management of immigration and diversity have been called into question. This article is an attempt to critically review and examine the key points of the debate regarding assimilationism and multiculturalism, while arguing for an interculturalist model of socio-cultural incorporation that reconciles cultural diversity with social cohesion. This paper looks at both European and North American cases and contends that when support for diversity occurs within a framework of social justice and political equality, and when all members of society are permitted to fully participate in the public space, the result is a more cohesive, albeit plural, civic community.

Diaspora politics has been celebrated as a form of transnationalism that can potentially challenge authoritarian regimes. Arguably, opposition groups and political activists can mobilize beyond the territorial limits of the state, thus bypassing some of the constraints to political organization found in authoritarian states. The literature on transnational and extraterritorial repression complicates this model, for it shows that states can use strategies of 'long-distance authoritarianism' to monitor, intimidate and harass diasporic populations abroad. Yet, non-state actors in the diaspora also sometimes use such repressive strategies to mobilize internally, gain hegemony within the diaspora, and marginalize or eliminate internal rivals. This raises the question of whether such activities can be understood as non-state forms of authoritarianism. Cases of diasporic politics pertaining to Turkey and Sri Lanka are briefly explored with a view to examining how state and non-state forms of trans-national repression can, under some conditions, result in the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism within a diaspora. In such cases, 'ordinary' members of the diaspora may become caught between multiple forms of transnational repression in addition to potentially experiencing marginalization and securitization in their new home.

After the two-fold crises of the liberal world order in the first decade of the twenty-first century, including the debacle of the Global War on Terror and the global financial crisis around 2008, we are witnessing a combined crisis of US hegemony and the transnational moment, along with the explosion of populism across the Atlantic world. In this context, this research not only analyses how the United States has designed and maintained the liberal interstate order and globalization but also the way the hegemon proactively starts to destroy its cross-national project today. Therefore, I aim to fathom the future of globalization by interrogating the current US state's key strategies that express America's changing national identity and self-role conception under shifting structural imperatives from unipolarity to the emerging multipolar world.

“Osmanlı Sarayında Japon Rüzgarı” sergi kataloğu, Dolmabahçe Sanat Galerisi, 23 Şubat - 21 Mart 2013 s.17-29 (In Turkish, “Japanese Wind at the Ottoman Palaces”, Exhibition Catalogue of Japanese Art Collection at Dolmabahçe Palace, Dolmabahçe Art Gallery, 23 February – 21 March 2013 pp.17-29)

This chapter examines the emergence of a regionalising East Asian pop music as at least a partial consequence of 1960s American attempts to bring Cold War Asia back to “normality” through the fostering of regional economic exchange. The 1980s “East Asian Miracle” that resulted in turn supported a regional desire for modern cultural formations that could accompany economic buoyancy. The unexpected spread of Japanese pop culture in East and Southeast Asia in the 1990s and the Korean pop culture that followed in its wake from the late 1990s – both of which were not aimed at regional audiences in their origins – follow from a progressive translocal change in cultural subjectivity, even though these pop-cultural phenomena should not be taken as linked in their entirety with the various Asian developmental states’ politico-economic agendas. The images in these pop cultures speak of a glossy urban Asia – no cultural essentialisms or exotic Asia here. The chapter enquires how we might think through the contradictions of imagining a capitalist “new Asia” from the 1980s, when tensions with origins ranging from the presence of mid-nineteenth century European colonialism to the Cold War, and that continue into the current global order, seem more pronounced than ever. No new ideology congruent with the ongoing economic integration has come about, and regionalising (if not quite regional) pop music is the postcolonial cultural expression of the fraught contemporary moment, in which culture, intertwined as it is with the commitment to economic growth, has engaged with older modernist ideologies in ways not conceivable during the Cold War.

This article focusses on Chua Beng Huat’s work on the East Asian pop culture that became more prominent in East and Southeast Asia from the 1990s, when the circulation of multilingual and multi-format pop culture started to exceed linguistic, ethnic and national boundaries. It argues that Chua’s work indicates that the pop-cultural production and innovation that support the globalisation and regionalisation processes in East Asia need not be national in origin but can hail from different national origins – and this despite the existing political realities of the region and its history of political fractures. He cautions, though, that the national-popular can also be marshalled to defeat the border-crossing potential of an inter-Asian pop culture. What is the ‘Asia’ imagined or being represented in such cultural production? Chua’s work is also distinctive in that it deals with the political and economic conditions that underpin mainstream pop consumption as a socio-cultural phenomenon, instead of examining consumption as identity politics. The article concludes by noting the significance that Chua as in institutional builder has played in enabling the study of East Asian pop culture in the region.