Tag: Transnational

Free Download Rebecca Prime, "Cinematic Homecomings: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema"
English | ISBN: 1441124470 | 2014 | 336 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The history of cinema charts multiple histories of exile. From the German émigrés in 1930s Hollywood to today’s Iranian filmmakers in Europe and the United States, these histories continue to exert a profound influence on the evolution of cinematic narratives and aesthetics. But while the effect of exile and diaspora on film practice has been fruitfully explored from both historical and contemporary perspectives, the issues raised by return, whether literal or metaphorical, have yet to be fully considered.

Free Download Nelson Ribeiro, "Revisiting Transnational Broadcasting: The BBC’s foreign-language services during the Second World War"
English | ISBN: 036702943X | 2019 | 114 pages | EPUB | 221 KB
Presenting a collection of original chapters, this book reassesses the history of the BBC foreign-language services prior to, and during, the Second World War. The communication between the British government and foreign publics by way of mass media constituted a fundamental, if often ignored, aspect of Britain’s international relations. From the 1930s onwards, transnational broadcasting – that is, broadcasting across national borders – became a major element in the conduct of Britain’s diplomacy, and the BBC was employed by the government to further its diplomatic, strategic, and economic interests in times of rising international tension and conflict.

Free Download Sine Agergaard, "Rethinking Sports and Integration: Developing a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports "
English | ISBN: 0367894173 | 2019 | 128 pages | EPUB | 769 KB
Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can promote the integration of migrants and their descendants. It examines the origins of this idea and the concept of integration, and analyzes the problems in focus, the methods applied and the results of sports-related integration programmes.

Free Download Marie Sandell, "The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism: Identity and Sisterhood Between the World Wars"
English | ISBN: 1350154865 | 2020 | 304 pages | EPUB | 942 KB
What characterised women’s international co-operation in the interwar period? How did female activists from different countries and continents relate to one another? Marie Sandell here explores the changing experiences of women involved in the major international women’s organisations – including the International Council of Women, International Alliance of Women, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and the International Federation of University Women – as well as the changing compositions and aims of the organisations themselves. Moving beyond an Anglo-American focus, Sandell analyses what the term ‘international sisterhood’ meant in this broader context, which for the first time included women from the beyond the Western world. Focusing on shifting identities, this book investigates how notions of ‘sisterhood’ were played out, and contested, during the interwar period and will be invaluable reading for scholars of women’s history and twentieth-century world history.

Free Download A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, "Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History"
English | ISBN: 0812249542 | 2017 | 352 pages | PDF | 7 MB
In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the world have moved from rural areas to metropolitan regions, some of them crossing national borders on the way. While urbanization and globalization are proceeding with an intensity that seems unprecedented, these are only the most recent iterations of long-term transformations-cities have for centuries served as vital points of contact between different peoples, economies, and cultures.

Free Download Patcharin Lapanun, "Love, Money and Obligation: Transnational Marriage in a Northeastern Thai Village"
English | ISBN: 981472291X | 2019 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Globalization has opened up a flow of economic and cultural exchanges. While we often think about these concepts in terms of trade policies or international treaties, they also play out in more intimate spheres, such as transnational marriages.

Free Download Samuel Cohen, "The Clash Takes on the World: Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters"
English | ISBN: 1501317334 | 2017 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be "bored with the USA," but The Clash wasn’t a parochial record. Mick Jones’ licks on songs such as "Hate and War" were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin’s reggae hit "Police and Thieves" showed that the band’s musical influences were already wide-ranging. Later albums such as Sandinista! and Combat Rock saw them experimenting with a huge range of musical genres, lyrical themes and visual aesthetics.

Free Download Lena Näre, "Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138887862, 0367869322 | PDF | pages: 282 | 1.1 mb
This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations. It provides insight into the ways in which contemporary demographic processes of aging and migration shape the meaning, experience and making of home for those in older age. Chapters explore how home is negotiated in relation to possibilities for return to the "homeland," family networks, aging and health, care cultures and belonging. The book deliberately crosses emerging sub-fields in transnationalism studies by offering case studies on aging labour migrants, retirement migrants, and return migrants, as well as older people affected by the movement of others including family members and migrant care workers. The diversity of people’s experiences of home in later life is fully explored and the impact of social class, gender, and nationality, as well as the corporeal dimensions of older age, are all in evidence.

Free Download Loretta Baldassar, Laura Merla, "Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415626730, 1138952931 | PDF | pages: 321 | 2.8 mb
Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualises transnational care as a set of activities that circulates between home and host countries – across generations – and fluctuates over the life course, going beyond a focus on mother-child relationships to include multidirectional exchanges across generations and between genders. It highlights, in particular, how the sense of belonging in transnational families is sustained by the reciprocal, though uneven, exchange of caregiving, which binds members together in intergenerational networks of reciprocity and obligation, love and trust that are simultaneously fraught with tension, contest and relations of unequal power. The chapters that make up this volume cover a rich array of ethnographic case studies including analyses of transnational families who circulate care between developing nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia to wealthier nations in North America, Europe and Australia. There are also examples of intra- and extra- European, Australian and North American migration, which involve the mobility of both the unskilled and working class as well as the skilled middle and aspirational classes.

Free Download Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe, "Transnational Aging: Current Insights and Future Challenges"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367597993, 1138790702 | PDF | pages: 282 | 2.3 mb
This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively contribute to and are affected by border-crossing processes. In addition, while some may voluntarily opt for adding a transnational dimension to their lives, others may have less choice in the matter. Transnational aging, therefore, provides a critical lens on how older people shape, organize and cope with life in contexts that are no longer bound to the frame of a single nation-state. Accordingly, the book emphasizes the agency of older people as well as the personal and structural constraints of their situations. The chapters in this book reveal these aspects by approaching transnational aging from different methodological angles, such as ethnographic research, comparative studies, quantitative data, and policy and discourse analysis. Geographically, the chapters cover a wide range of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, such as Namibia, Thailand, Russia, Germany, the United States and Ecuador.