Transcript PowerPoint Week 12

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Transnational Studies
SOC 783
B. Nadya Jaworsky
Room 3.59
Tuesdays 16:00 – 18:00
Wednesdays 14:00 – 15:40
Final Research Essay Timeline
• December 14, 2010 - (before last class at 12:00) A
short (1-2 pp.) preliminary summary of your work
is due via e-mail.
• January 17, 2011 - FINAL ESSAY IS DUE FOR
MASTER’S STUDENTS SITTING FOR THE STATE
EXAM.
• January 31, 2010 - FINAL ESSAY IS DUE VIA EMAIL by 23:59.
“The Field”
(Gupta and Ferguson)
• Field sites thus end up being defined by the
crosshatched intersection of visa and
clearance procedures, the interests of
funding agencies, and intellectual
debates within the discipline and its
subfields.
Implications of an Archetype
• The radical separation of “field” and “home”
• The valorization of certain types of fieldworkbased knowledge to the exclusion of others
• The fieldworker as (normative)
anthropological subject
A new type of fieldwork?
• counters Western ethnocentrism and values detailed
and intimate knowledge of economically and
politically marginalized places, peoples, histories and
social locations.
• stress on taken-for-granted social routines, informal
knowledge, and embodied practices can yield
understanding that cannot be obtained either
through standardized social science research
methods
• a form of motivated and stylized dislocation.
METHODOLOGICAL NATIONALISM:
the “naturalization of the nation-state by the social sciences”
Methodological Nationalism –
Three Variants:
• Ignoring or disregarding the fundamental important
of nationalism for modern societies (grand theory)
• Naturalization, i.e. taking for granted that the
boundaries of the nation-state delimit and define the
unit of analysis (empirical social science)
• Territorial limitation which confines the study of
social processes to the political and geographical
boundaries of a particular nation state (study of
nationalism and state building)
“Porous Public”
“What should interest us, instead, are two
things: how national public spheres are
penetrated by issues and information from areas
outside it, and how issues and information in
national public spheres ‘migrate’ or are ‘lifted
out’ in a way that ends up affecting politics in
other national contexts. This openness in both
directions is the defining characteristic of the
porous public.”
Porous Public Sphere in Denmark
(1) transnational news channels
(2) Danish media acting transnationally
(3) non-Danish media acting transnationally
(4) Danes or people living in Denmark with
Muslim background
(5) transnationally shared events.
“Transnational Dialectic”
“…[G]lobalization is a learning
process in which globalization is
simultaneously cause and outcome of
social activities at local and national
levels.
“Transnational Dialectic”
•(NATIONAL) Publication of cartoons (initial criticism from national
actors)
• (TRANSNATIONAL) Initial criticism from transnational actors
(mainly Muslim states, institutions and organizations)
• (NATIONAL) Unconditional response by Danish government and
Jyllands-Posten
• (TRANSNATIONAL) Growing criticism from transnational
actors (including non-Muslim state and institutional actors)
• (NATIONAL) Concessions by Danish government and JyllandsPosten
• (TRANSNATIONAL) Varied response from transnational
actors
• (NATIONAL) Effects on domestic Danish politics and increased
global consciousness
SMS Methodology (Mazzucato)
• a simultaneous, matched sample
(SMS) methodology in which a
relatively large, matched sample of
respondents is studied
simultaneously and intensively
(repeated visits over a long period of
time).
SMS Methodology (Mazzucato)
• Linked Policy Consequences across Countries
• Two-way Flows
• Triangulation
• Tracking Change
• Getting beyond Migration Discourses and
False Dichotomies
Core themes
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“The Field” in Anthropology
“Methodological Nationalism”
“Porous Publics”
“Transnational Dialectic”
The transnational turn in history (Seigel)
Comparative Historical Methods
SMS Methodology (Mazzucato)