The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies (Routledge History Handbooks)

The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies brings together the various fields within which transregional phenomena are scientifically observed and analysed. This handbook presents the theoretical and methodological potential of such studies for the advancement of the conceptualization of global and area-bound developments. Following three decades of intense debate about globalization and transnationalism, it has become clear that border-crossing connections and interactions between societies are highly important, yet not all extend beyond the borders of nation-states or are of truly world-wide reach. The product of extensive international and interdisciplinary cooperation, this handbook is divided into ten sections that introduce the wide variety of topics within transregional studies, including Colonialism and Post-Colonial Studies, Spatial Formats, International Organizations, Religions and Religious Movements, and Transregional Studies and Narratives of Globalization. Recognizing that transregional studies asks about the space-making and space-formatting character of connections as well as the empirical status of such connections under the global condition, the volume reaches beyond the typical confines of area and regional studies to consider how areas are transcended and transformed more widely. Combining case studies with both theoretical and methodological considerations, The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies provides the first overview of the currently flourishing field of transregional studies and is the ideal volume for students and scholars of this diverse subject and its related fields. 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 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’ 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 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’ 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 Trade regionalism and transregionalism Private–public interactions and transregional trade Political security, geopolitical factors, and transregional trade Conclusion Select bibliography Chapter 33: Internet governance Introduction Internet spaces Transscalar Internet governance Conclusion Notes Select bibliography Chapter 34: Transregional aspects of international financial regulation Introduction IFR and its international organization today Perspectives on IFR and some resulting key aspects Transregional issues Concluding considerations Select bibliography Chapter 35: Global health: a concept in search of its meaning between Northern dominance and egalitarianism Introduction Conclusions Select bibliography Chapter 36: Truth commissions and the International Criminal Court Introduction Truth commissions ICTs and the ICC in The Hague ICTY in The Hague and the former Yugoslavia Cambodia and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Conclusion Select bibliography Chapter 37: Transregional dynamics and cultures of international organizations Introduction Community of states Institutionalization of cooperation International secretariats Leadership International staff culture Universal versus regional Regional or world health? Continental differences Conclusion Select bibliography Chapter 38: Transregional trends in international organizations in the field of climate and energy Introduction The evolution of transnational and international climate and energy governance Transregional fora of current energy and climate politics Conclusion: transregionalism in the era of the Anthropocene Select bibliography PART VI: Mobilities, migration, and diasporas Introduction Chapter 39: Historical perspectives on migration Interregional networks, contacts, migrations to around 1500 Conceptualizations of ‘regions’ Nineteenth-century migration regions and changes through the mid-twentieth century From war crisis to financial crises: 1950s–2008 Conclusion: 2008 and its aftermath Select bibliography Chapter 40: Forced mobilities: slave trade and indentured migration Introduction Slave trade as a more-than European and pre-colonial undertaking European expansions and the capitalization of human bodies Periodizing slave trading Select bibliography Chapter 41: Refugees and human displacement Introduction Refugees and the rise of modern nation-states Modern refugees and the emergence of the international refugee regime Recent human displacement: regional refugee flows, enhanced mobility, and ICTs New transregional challenges: refugees on the high seas and environmental displacement Conclusion Select bibliography Chapter 42: Analytical concepts in migration studies Exile and diaspora Diaspora and transmigration From transnational to transregional perspectives? Conclusion Select bibliography Chapter 43: Responsibility-shifting and the global refugee regime Introduction Responsibility-shifting in a historical and transregional perspective Political and policy consequences of responsibility-shifting Perspectives to be applied in transregional research Select bibliography Chapter 44: Transregionality of African entrepreneurs Introduction Mobility culture: migration vs. transregional mobility? Transregional entrepreneurs Transregionality and translation in African society Note Select bibliography Chapter 45: Migration’s lines of flight: borders as spaces of contestation Introduction The primacy of resistance The dominance of the border paradigm From push-and-closure models to humanitarianism The autonomy of migration approach as critical intervention into border studies The autonomy of migration as a prism Select bibliography PART VII: Religions and religious movements Select bibliography Introduction Chapter 46: The ‘trans’ in the study of religion: power and mobility in a multiscalar perspective Setting up the problem Religion, commodities, and flows Bringing back the ‘trans’: networks and multiscalar analysis Applying the networks approach Notes Select bibliography Chapter 47: Religious NGOs: the new face of religion in civil society A new type of religious organization Religious NGOs at the United Nations Civil society, Western dominance, and democracy Formal and informal relations Concluding remarks Select bibliography Chapter 48: Mission Mission as an object of interdisciplinary study Mission as a transcultural phenomenon The invention of religion and the adoption of mission strategies The invention of religion and mission to the West Mission, media, and globalization Conclusion: global mission, global religion? Select bibliography Chapter 49: Migration, diaspora, and religion Migration: scope and theory Diaspora Select bibliography Chapter 50: Global religious organizations Global religious organizations: theoretical perspectives Religious transregionalism in the pre-modern world Religious organizations in the context of early modern globalization Religious organizations in the context of modern globalization Religious organizations in the context of contemporary globalization Conclusion Select bibliography Chapter 51: Religion: globalization and glocalization Religion and globalization Religion and glocalization Integrated approaches Conclusion Select bibliography PART VIII: (Trans)cultural studies Introduction Chapter 52: Global theatre history Context Global theatre history: subjects of research Methodological challenges for writing global theatre historiographies Exemplary case studies Outlook Select bibliography Chapter 53: Cultural brokers and mediators Brokers and mediators in different transregional and transnational constellations Mediation and brokerage: into the middle of things Systems of intermediation and brokered worlds Select bibliography Chapter 54: Music and revolt: a breakneck ride through the transregional production and significance of jazz and rock Hybrid origins and significations Agencies, contexts, and ambivalences Moral panics and social unrest Select bibliography Chapter 55: World literature and space constructions Introduction Literary spaces The West and the rest of the world The dialectics of national and world literature Colonial and post-colonial as world literary spaces The spatialization of the world in literature Conclusion Select bibliography Chapter 56: Language policy in transregional contacts Introduction What is language policy? Language policy in transregional contexts Note Select bibliograpy Chapter 57: Intellectual property rights Laws, institutions, and historical narratives Intellectual property and the rise of the national state, society, culture, economy, and law (1770s–1870s) Intellectual property rights in the age of internationalizationand transnationalization of culture-, media-, science-, andknowledge-based industries (1870s–1970s) Convergences and divergences in the twentieth century Conclusions Select bibliography Chapter 58: Universities as portals of globalization Introduction Discursive rescaling The empowered university Global rankings and academic hierarchy Hubs for academic mobility Shaping worldviews Conclusion Select bibliography PART IX: Knowledge production, transfer, and application across areas Introduction Chapter 59: Opening up transregional analysis in the Basel Mission Archive Introduction: regional, transregional Linking new knowledge of the Basel Mission’s European roots with the history of its pre-1914 reception in south-eastern Ghana and south-western India The two phases in the social and economic basis of everyday life in nineteenth-century Württemberg and their links with Basel Mission history at home and abroad Schwabian Realteilung and the town of Akropong Württemberg, Akuapem, and ‘the language of the people’ Some final remarks Notes Select bibliography Chapter 60: Development economics as transregional studies Select bibliography Chapter 61: Early warning and conflict prevention Introduction Knowledge production: the rise of an international norm Knowledge transfer: epistemological debates Knowledge application: practices of early warning and conflict prevention in Africa Conclusions Select bibliography Chapter 62: Knowledge diplomacy in climate politics: bridging global policy gaps through a transregional lens Generation of knowledge on climate change: the role of the IPCC and epistemic communities Knowledge diplomacy in climate change negotiations Bridging global climate policy gaps through a transregional lens – quo vadimus? Select bibliography Chapter 63: Influencing the other: transnational actors and knowledge transfer in education Introduction Cultural and knowledge transfer in education (R)IOs as sites of production and transfer of knowledge Research on educational transfer and transregional studies Select bibliography Chapter 64: Transnational knowledge networks Introduction: linking knowledge, networks, and space Brokering knowledge across borders Spatialities of knowledge Conclusion Select bibliography PART X: Transregional studies and narratives of globalization Introduction Chapter 65: Global studies and transregional studies: collaborators not competitors Introduction Integrating transregional perspectives into globalization research: the deterritorialization debate Conclusion Select bibliography Chapter 66: Economic zones in a global(ized?) economy Introduction A global economy of economic zones Comparative regional versus transregional analysis Transregional phenomena as heterogeneous system structures The area studies of economic zones Select bibliography Chapter 67: Global regions in the critical geography of globalization The logic of ‘global’ regions Global regions at work Global ‘gradients’ versus global convergence Select bibliography Chapter 68: Post-colonial studies: on scapes and spaces Staging the Orient Urban situatedness and interdependencies Between nation and globe Thinking South Select bibliography Chapter 69: The BRICS Introduction The BRICs as discourse The BRICS as practice Beyond the BRICS Conclusions Select bibliography Chapter 70: Global challenges Framing ‘global challenges’ Discourse entrepreneurs Some major global challenges Conclusions Select bibliography Chapter 71: Narratives about globalization: international studies and global studies Select bibliography Index Transregionality in the history of area studies / Steffi Marung -- Balkan counter-circulation: internationalizing area studies from a periphery during the Cold War / Bogdan Iacob -- Area studies scholarship of Asia / Prasenjit Duara -- Area studies, regionalwissenschaften, aires culturelles: the respatialization of area studies from a bird's-eye view / Steffi Marung -- Methods in transregional studies: intercultural transfers / Antje Dietze and Matthias Middell -- Comparative area studies / Andreas Mehler -- Transregional study of class, social groups, and milieus / Christof Dejung -- The study of transregional movements / Helena Flam -- Multiple Atlantics / Susanne Lachenicht -- Indian Ocean worlds / Geert Castryck -- Movements, sites, and encounters of (post- )colonial knowledge in and of the Pacific / Christa Wirth -- Colonial studies and its post-colonial legacies / Felix Brahm -- From the village to the world: subaltern studies as critical historicism / Christopher J. Lee -- The invention of the Third World and the geopolitics of dependence and development / Hubertus Büsch -- Decolonization and Cold War geographies: remapping the post-colonial world / Christopher J. Lee -- Continents and civilizations / Gilad Ben-Nun -- Languages and spaces: la francophonie, lusofonia, and hispanidad / Jürgen Erfurt -- Historical mesoregions and transregionalism / Stefan Troebst -- Borderlands: temporality, space, and scale / Paul Nugent -- Global cities / Ursula Rao -- Special economic zones and transregional state spatiality / Megan Maruschke -- Transregional trade infrastructures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Uwe Müller -- Conceptualizing the world economy: the world market / Gordon Winder -- Great divergence: addressing global inequalities / Philipp Rössner -- Property demythologized: historical transformations and spatial hierarchies of land regimes / Hanne -- The role of infrastructure in transregional ventures / Roland Wenzlhuemer -- Supply chain capitalism and the technologies of global territory / Julian Stenmanns and Marc Boeckl -- Power without borders: transnational corporations in the global food system / Doris Fuchs and Tobia -- Contested extractivism: actors and strategies in conflicts over mining / Kristina Dietz and Bettina -- Transregional protest against preferential trade agreements / Cornelia Reiher -- Peace and security / Ulf Engel -- Trade transregionalism / Theodore H. Cohn -- Internet governance / Jan Art Scholte -- Transregional aspects of international financial regulation / Fabian Scholtes -- Global health: a concept in search of its meaning between northern dominance and egalitarianism / Iris Borowy -- Truth commissions and the International Criminal Court / Helena Flam and Katarina Ristic -- Transregional dynamics and cultures of international organizations / Bob Reinalda -- Transregional trends in international organizations in the field of climate and energy / Markus Led -- Historical perspectives on migration / Dirk Hoerder -- Forced mobilities: slave trade and indentured migration / Michael Zeuske -- Refugees and human displacement / Gilad Ben-Nun -- Analytical concepts in migration studies: exile, diaspora, and transmigration / Jenny Kuhlmann -- Responsibility-shifting and the global refugee regime / Adèle Garnier -- Transregionality of African entrepreneurs / Laurence Marfaing -- Migration's lines of flight: borders as spaces of contestation / Sabine Hess and Serhat Karakayali -- The "trans" in the study of religion: power and mobility in a multiscalar perspective / Manuel Vásq -- Religious NGOs: the new face of religion in civil society / Anne Stensvold -- Mission / Claudia Jahnel -- Migration, diaspora, and religion / Martin Baumann -- Global religious organizations / Adrian Herrmann -- Religion: globalization and glocalization / Ugo Dessì -- Global theatre history / Nic Leonhardt -- Cultural brokers and mediators / Antje Dietze -- Music and revolt: a breakneck ride through the transregional production and significance of jazz and rock / Michael G. Esch -- World literature and post-colonialism / David Simo -- Language policy in transregional contacts / Klaus Bochmann -- Intellectual property rights / Hannes Siegrist -- Universities as portals of globalization / Claudia Baumann -- Opening up transregional analysis in the Basel Mission Archive / Paul Jenkins -- Developmental economics as transregional studies / Ute Rietdorf -- Early warning and conflict prevention / Ulf Engel -- Knowledge diplomacy in climate politics: bridging global policy gaps through a transregional lens / Ariel Macaspac Hernández -- Influencing the other: transnational actors and knowledge transfer in education / Marcelo Parreira -- Transnational knowledge networks / Basak Bilecen -- Global studies and transregional studies: collaborators not competitors / Manfred B. Steger -- Economic zones in a global(ized?) economy / Salvatore Babones -- Global regions in the critical geography of globalization / John Agnew -- Post-colonial studies: on scapes and spaces / Jini Kim Watson -- The BRICS / Ulf Engel -- Global challenges / Ulf Engel -- Narratives about globalization: international studies and global studies / Matthias Middell "The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies brings together the various fields within which transregional phenomena are scientifically observed and analysed. This handbook presents the theoretical and methodological potential of such studies for the advancement of the conceptualization of global and area-bound developments. The product of extensive international and interdisciplinary cooperation, it is divided into ten sections that introduce the wide variety of topics within transregional studies. It provides the first overview of the currently flourishing field of transregional studies and is the ideal volume for students and scholars of this diverse subject and its related fields"-- Provided by publisher