Projektionen der Moral: Filmskandale in der Weimarer Republik
Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/3/496?rss=1
Archiv für August 2016
Poders a l’ombra: les comissions de les institucions parlamentàries i representatives (segles XV–XX)
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The More Things Change … Developments in German Practices towards Asylum Seekers and Recognised Refugees
Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2016, Page 344-365<br/>. <br/>
Building Pathways for the Highly Skilled: Adopting a Comparative Political Economy Approach to the Study of German, Austrian and Swedish Labour Migration Policies
Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2016, Page 329-343<br/>. <br/>
How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession through Transplantation and Adaptation
Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2016, Page 436-437<br/>. <br/>
Transitional Justice after German Reunification: Exposing Unofficial Collaborators
Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2016, Page 433-434<br/>. <br/>
The boundaries of transnationalism: the case of assisted voluntary return migrants
Few studies on transnationalism have focused on migrants who return to their country of origin with insufficient resources and limited mobility. This study sheds light on the transnational connections of those who went back to Georgia and Armenia from Belgium on a voluntary assisted return and reintegration programme. Using Boccagni’s (2012) analytical framework, we reveal the returnees’ interpersonal, institutional and symbolic transnational ties. Although these ties were often limited and had little effect on their daily lives, and although the migrants’ desire to participate in the transnational field rarely matched their ability to do so, they nonetheless attached great value to them symbolically and emotionally. Our findings question current conceptualizations of transnationalism and the focus on the home country as the sole context in which transnational ties should have an impact. We believe that there is a need to pay greater attention to the subjective and symbolic dimensions of the return–transnationalism field, including the relationship between integration and return migration policies.
Shopping in Mumbai: transnational sociability from the Netherlands
In this article, I present the concept of sociability as a preferable alternative to current network theories. I apply Simmel’s concept of sociability to the bonding that occurs among ethnic networks at both the community and global levels. I argue for the need to separate the sociability elements of enjoyment and pleasure in time and place. I focus on the diaspora tourism of Dutch Hindustanis to show that joy and pleasure occur both when shopping in India and when giving gifts in the Netherlands. Furthermore, I argue that gifts purchased in India create bonding within close ethnic circles. As a result, these gifts become part of the material culture of the group, contributing to a feeling of home, ethnic consciousness and transnational bonds. Finally, I suggest that this joy and pleasure can be repeated because many of these moments are recorded with video cameras and photographs. Through this analysis, I demonstrate that transnational sociability, exemplified in diaspora tourism (specifically in shopping and gift giving), generates bonding both at the ethnic group and global level. I thus aim to add specificity to studies of transnational ethnic networks.
Reconsidering the role of the digital in global production networks
Global production networks (GPNs) have become a key framework in conceptualizing linkages, power and structure in globalized production. However, this framework has been less successful in integrating the influence of digital information and ICTs in production, and this problematic in a world where relationships and power are increasingly mediated by digital information flows and resources. We thus look to adapt the GPN framework to allow more substantive analysis of ‘the digital’. Primarily, this is done through a theoretical analysis of the three core categories of the GPN framework – embeddedness, value and networks – to highlight how these categories can better integrate a more dynamic and contested conceptualization of the digital. Illustrations from research on the digitalization of tea sector GPNs in East Africa highlight how these theoretical advances provide new insights on the digital and its expanding role in economic production.