... social networking sites—as to individuals themselves. This article discusses the role of circulation in understanding the Egyptian popular uprising. It focuses on the literary work of a young generation of Egyptians whose writings from the past several years—and comments on the January 25 movement...

... so, this essay illuminates the often unrecognized differences in communicative labor that constitute contemporary forms of global legality. Copyright 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 food sovereignty global governance translation transnational law transnational social movements...

... of these governing concepts has anything special to say about hope. This short argument is elaborated in two books in progress: the first is titled The Capacity to Aspire and is an ethnography of hope in a transnational social movement; the other is The Quality of Life, an argument for a vision of human...

... be the autonomous site of mediation between “humanity” and a global political order. Human rights NGOs, however, do not possess the requisite autonomy. In the first place, transnational social movements occur in a decentralised political system where...

... in relation to Jamaica’s postindependence social movements and a transnational politics of what was then termed “gay liberation,” this article contributes to a queering of Caribbean history and to a decentering of the West in global histories of sexuality. 2 I first became aware of GFM after reading...

... 410 in France, Moluccans in Holiand are the carriers of these new transnational and Public Culture postnational loyalties. Territorial nationalism is the alibi of these movements and not necessarily their basic motive or final goal...

... transnational construction of imaginary landscapes. The world we live in to- day is characterised by a new role for the imagination in social life. To grasp this new role, we need to bring together: the old idea of images, especially mechanically produced images (in the Frankfurt School sense): the idea...

... . Ottoman population 1830–1914: Demographic and social characteristics . Madison:University of Wisconsin Press. Kirişçi, Kemal. 1998 . Turkey. In Internally displaced people: A global survey , edited by Janie Hampton. London: Earthscan. Kyle, David. 2000 . Transnational peasants:Migrations...

... invariably reacted against or innovated upon discourses of modernity. Virtually all transnational black movements of the nineteenth and twen- tieth centuries have utilized ideas about racial selfhood and collective identity, capitalism and socialism, justice and democracy that emerged as the economic...

... representational. The transnational morphed into the global. The movement of bodies was seen as part of the same energy that moved images. The formative ideas of liberal political theory (civility, publicity, representation, participation) began to be seen as parts of a global ecumene of words and ideas...

... television news crews to report on them. Since the Chinese domestic television market is so vast, we have yet to see strong signs of movement out from China toward transnational broadcasting (except for CCTV-4—the voice of the central government...

..., ethnographic methods, and transnational feminist methodologies and praxis in our encounters with diversity work and decolonizing movements in the university are essential practices in a slowly unfolding, long-term, and sustainable decolonizing diversity approach. Crucially, decolonizing diversity...

... the forces that constitute the transnational moment: movements of capital and populations, the introduction of 'alien' cultures and 'media imperialism', questions of double allegiance. Here and elsewhere, we use the term diaspora to stand in, provisionally, for others that share a semantic domain...

... popular culture, transnational identities, and new social movements. At the same time, as the work of Jürgen Habermas and Benedict Anderson has shown, these forms can be traced back to the rise of print capitalism and its international circulation of novels and newspapers during the eighteenth...

.... John Okada As populations become deterritorialized and incompletely nationalized, as nations splinter and recombine, as states face intractable dificulties in the task of producing “the people,” transnations are the most important social sites in which...

... direction. It tries to make citizenship more inclusive. It aims to reconceive citizenship in supranational and nonlocal terms in which rights are available to individuals regardless of national origins, residence, or place of work. Examples include movements for human rights, transnational...

...; then, in a second movement it turned into the standard used for thinking about, measuring, and, when possible, bringing to trial the multiple cases of local disappeared already incorporated in the transnational type. Original and transnational thus refer to two moments in an evolution but also to two levels...

..., the socialist project is essentially universal- ist in character, and socialism, even as a transitional mode, cannot exist except on a transnational basis; yet the struggle for even the prospect of that transition presumes a national basis, in so far as the already existing structures of the nation...

... Debat. 1994. Le Nouveau Paris . Special Issue of Le Debat ( Summer ). Martinotti , Guido . 1993. Metropoli: La nuova morfologia sociale della citta. Bologna: Il Mulino. Mittleman , James , ed. 1996. Yearbook of Interanational Political Economy , Vol. 9. Boulder, Colorado...

... reshaped the Tamil political and social milieu. These movements espoused the cause of “Dravidians,” a social category that, depending on its target of opposition, was variously coded as racial, caste-based, linguistic, or territorial. Tamilnadu is now known for its highly politicized lower caste majority...