MARKNER, Reinhard, NEUGEBAUER-WÖLK, Monika, SCHÜTTLER, Hermann (eds), Die Korrespondenz des Illuminaten-Ordens, Vol 2: January 1782–June 1783
(Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013), xxxv + 711 pp., 149.95€ / $210.00 eBook; 149.95€ / $210.00 Hbk, €229 / 321$ Print/eBook, ISBN: 978-3-11-029500-9.
SCHUCHARD, Marsha Keith, Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden, The Northern World 55 (Leiden, Boston, MA: Brill, 2012), xviii+804 pp., €217, $298, Illustrated, Hbk, ISBN: 978-9-00-418312-4.
SCHUCHARD, Marsha Keith, Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden, The Northern World 55 (Leiden, Boston, MA: Brill, 2012), xviii+804 pp., €217, $298, Illustrated, Hbk, ISBN: 978-9-00-418312-4.
The editors introduce this double issue of JRFF which is devoted entirely to the theme of women and freemasonry.
The editors introduce this double issue of JRFF which is devoted entirely to the theme of women and freemasonry.
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/dilemaveche/issue/2014-03-31.html
New front
Öffentliche Tagung des Interdisziplinären Zentrums zur Erforschung der
Europäischen Aufklärung an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
und der Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg im
Potsdam Museum – Forum fü…
In this article, through comparing two highly skilled migrant groups in London, we explore how new types of information and communication technologies (ICTs) shape the form and content of transnational practices through time and space. In so doing, we aim to contribute to several debates in the field of migration studies. First, our findings highlight enduring practical constraints emanating from everyday routines and responsibilities, thus questioning the extent to which ICTs may be shrinking the globe and freeing people, even highly skilled ones, from spatial and temporal fixity. Second, we challenge assumptions about the ease of transnationalism by exploring the range and complexity of long-distance interpersonal relationships and their dynamics over time. Third, by focusing on a comparison of relatively affluent, highly skilled migrants, we question the usefulness of the category of ‘middling migrants’. Our findings illustrate that, within this general and wide ranging category, there are diverse experiences, expectations and opportunities of maintaining contact with friends and family at home.
Our reconceptualization of state transnationalism underlines the active role that states can play in generating and sustaining cross-border flows between a nation’s homeland and its diasporic communities. This represents a sort of ‘middle ground’ between formerly hegemonic ‘state centric’ approaches to global processes (focusing heavily on the ‘international’) and more recent ones emphasizing ‘transnational’ dynamics (which primarily arise through the agency of cross-border migrants). We discuss a typology of approaches and avoid the tendency to set nation-states against global and transnational processes. In fact, we highlight the various ways in which states often initiate key transnational flows, such as migration and the integration of diasporic communities into the sending nation, as well as maintain and regulate various processes instigated by immigrants. As an iconic case, we present an illustrative study of the South Korean government and Korean diasporic communities in the USA. Finally, in a brief conclusion, we outline some challenges for future research.
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