The Multisite Nation

Crossborder Organizations, Transfrontier Infrastructure, and Global Digital Public Sphere
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-56723-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4199 g

This book explains the transformation of the nation into a cosmonation (or multisite nation) through the reunification of the homeland with its diaspora. The book elaborates on how the mechanisms of linkages, connections, and networking interact to form distributed sites of homeland and diaspora into a cosmonation and how diasporans in different units of such a crossborder social formation, wherever they relocate, relate to each other. The ensemble thereby functions as a cultural and political collectivity manifested through cultural traditions, inter-site familial, institutional, and associational ties, transnational solidarity, and reverence for the ancestral homeland.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laguerre, Michel S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Exilforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Multisite Nation.- 2. Cosmonation: The Rise of the Multisite Nation.- 3. Crossborder Diasporic Organizations.- 4. Crossborder Infrastructure of the Cosmonation.- 5. Cosmonational Digital Public Sphere.- 6. Cosmonational Integration of Diaspora Enclaves.- 7. Conclusion: Institutionalization of the Multisite Nation.

Über Autor(innen)

Michel S. Laguerre is a professor of global studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Director of the Center for Globalization and Information Technology, and Member of the Executive Committee of the College of Letters and Science.