Transnationalism from Below: Comparative Urban and Community Research

by Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Michael P. Smith

Book Overview

Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political institutions. It also faces the decentering local resistances of the informal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156000990X
• ISBN13: 9781560009900
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"