RT Book T1 The Routledge handbook of transregional studies T2 Routledge History Handbooks A2 Middell, Matthias 1961- LA English PP London New York PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group YR 2019 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1041567030 AB Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of special features -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Notes on contributors -- Transregional studies: a new approach to global processes -- Terminology and inspirations -- Transregional phenomena, regionalization, and global order -- Aims and structure of the handbook -- Select bibliography -- PART I: Histories of area studies and methodological approaches -- Introduction -- Note -- Chapter 1: Transregionality in the history of area studies -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 2: Balkan counter-circulation: internationalizing area studies from a periphery during the Cold War -- Introduction -- The emergence of AIESEE -- A model for other area studies promoted by UNESCO -- Locating the region within transregional geographies -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 3: Area studies scholarship of Asia -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 4: Area studies, Regionalwissenschaften, aires culturelles: the respatialization of area studies from a bird's-eye view -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 5: Methods in transregional studies: intercultural transfers -- The legacy of comparison -- Intercultural transfer between France and Germany -- From the transnational to the transregional -- Regionalization and space-making -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 6: Comparative area studies -- Introduction -- Comparative politics: a European and North American science? -- Requirements for an inclusive comparative politics -- Advantages and forms of CAS -- Conclusion -- Note -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 7: Transregional study of class, social groups, and milieus -- Sociability and transregional interaction -- Analytical framework I: world-system theory -- Analytical framework II: the theory of world society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography. AB Chapter 8: The study of transnational movements -- The anti-apartheid movement: thespider in the web as a key informer -- The fair trade movement: catching both ends of the commodity and decision-making chain -- The anti-debt campaign: process tracing and expert interviews -- Human Rights NGOs: experts, UN registers and a mailed survey -- Transnational alliances: surveys and face-to-face expert interviews -- Diffusion of global values and discourses: armchair research -- Global justice movements: 'in-situ' research -- Transregional environmental NGOs as whistleblowers and policy-shapers: process tracing -- Transregional humanitarian intervention in conflict zones: IO registers and expert interviews -- North-South activism: interrogating activists of the Global North -- 'We are all Khaled Said' and neo-Nazi movements: tracing mobilization via visuals -- Summing up -- Select bibliography -- PART II: Colonialism and post-colonial studies -- Introduction -- Chapter 9: Multiple Atlantics -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 10: Indian Ocean worlds -- The Indian Ocean: historically connected -- Indian Ocean studies: an epistemological trans-area -- The ambivalent relation between Indian Ocean studies and area studies -- The decolonization of Indian Ocean studies -- Post-colonial studies and Indian Ocean studies -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 11: Movements, sites, and encounters of (post-)colonial knowledge in and of the Pacific -- Definitions and research institutions -- Writing Pacific histories into a global space: a new thalassology -- From naming the Pacific to the age of empire -- Intermediaries at work: knowledge collaboration in asymmetrical imperial relationships -- Theorizing the Pacific as a living space -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 12: Colonial expertism and its post-colonial legacies -- Science and empire -- 'Scientific colonialism' AB Transimperial cooperation and colonial exclusion -- Decolonization and post-colonial continuities -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 13: From the village to the world: subaltern studies as critical historicism -- The beginnings of subaltern studies -- The globalization of subaltern studies -- Subaltern studies today -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 14: The invention of the Third World and the geopolitics of dependence and development -- The history of the concept Third World -- Dependence: quintessence of the Third World -- Spatial regimes and the discourse of development -- The paradoxes of deconstruction and perpetuation: Walter Rodney -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 15: Decolonization and Cold War geographies: remapping the post-colonial world -- Area studies, global decolonization, and the rise of the nation-state -- Transregional formations of the Cold War -- Conclusions -- Select bibliography -- PART III: Spatial formats -- Introduction -- Chapter 16: Continents and civilizations -- The terminological problems implied in the concepts of 'continents' and 'civilizations' -- The dualistic legacy of antiquity: scientific versus narrative geography -- Islamicate 'scientific geography' under Al-Biruni and Al-Idrisi: bearers of the Greek torch -- The fallacies of 'the West': 'the clash of civilizations' revisited -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 17: Languages and spaces: La Francophonie and other 'phonies' -- Introduction -- What does 'francophonie' mean? -- Languages and spaces -- Francophone spaces and transregional processes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 18: Historical meso-regions and transregionalism -- What is a historical meso-region? -- Four concepts of historical meso-regions: East-Central Europe, the Balkans, Europe, Eurasia -- Transregionalism and historical meso-regions -- Select bibliography AB Chapter 19: Border studies: temporality, space, and scale -- Viewing borders three-dimensionally -- Themes -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 20: Global cities -- Defining the global city -- Heterogeneity and conflict in the global city -- Social practices and the making of the global city -- Summary -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 21: Special economic zones and transregional state spatiality -- Regional strategies and global economic restructuring -- Transregional state spatiality -- Conclusions -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 22: Transregional trade infrastructures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Introduction -- Key topics in transport history -- The periodization of globalization -- The transport revolution and transregional trade during the first phase of modern economic globalization -- The transport revolution and transregional trade during the second phase of modern economic globalization -- Transport revolutions and relations between major world regions -- Conclusions -- Select bibliography -- PART IV: Economic entanglements -- Introduction -- Chapter 23: Conceptualizing the world economy: the world market -- The 'world market' in economics -- Critical social science responses -- Development of the 'capitalist world-system' -- Ways forward -- Note -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 24: Great Divergence: addressing global inequalities -- Introduction -- Traditional approaches and explanations -- Modern measures of inequality do not work for deep historical time -- Apples or oranges? On choosing the right comparative standard -- What role did ideas play in processes of global economic divergence? -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 25: Property demythologized: historical transformations and spatial hierarchies of land regimes -- Introduction -- Demythologizing the idea of 'perfect property' AB A historicization of land commodification -- The liberal revolution -- Developmentalism -- Neo-liberalism -- A spatialization of the global land regime -- Conclusion: #LandRightsNow, but not just anyhow -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 26: The role of infrastructure in transregional ventures -- Introduction -- The global telegraph network -- Integrating Mont Cenis -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 27: Supply chain capitalism and the technologies of global territory -- Introduction -- Global territory, logistics, and infrastructure -- Port zones -- Contained borders -- Distributed places -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 28: Power without borders? Transnational corporations in the global food system -- Introduction: the changing nature of the global food system -- The power of transnational corporations in the food system -- Restructurings of spatial orders in the food system -- Conclusion -- Note -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 29: Contested extractivism: actors and strategies in conflicts over mining -- Introduction -- Issues at stake and actors involved in conflicts over mining -- Strategies and repertoires of contention -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Chapter 30: Transregional protest against preferential trade agreements -- Preferential trade agreements -- Transregional protest movements against PTAs in East Asia -- The transregional dimension of protests against the TPP: perspectives from Japan -- Conclusion -- Note -- Select bibliography -- PART V: International organizations -- Introduction -- Chapter 31: Peace and security -- Introduction -- Transregional deployments -- From interregionalism to transregionalism -- Conclusions -- Select bibliography -- Transregional deployments -- Chapter 32: Trade transregionalism -- Historical examples of trade transregionalism -- The GATT/WTO and transregionalism AB Trade regionalism and transregionalism NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources CN JZ1320.7 SN 9780429796432 SN 9780429796425 SN 9780429796418 SN 9780429438233 K1 Interregionalism K1 Electronic books K1 Aufsatzsammlung