Fielding Transnationalism: An Introduction

Go, Julian; Krause, Monika

doi:10.1111/2059-7932.12000

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“…Go and Krause (2016) and Buchholz (2016) underlined that Bourdieu did not set fixed boundaries for habitus and social fields. This fluid and relational nature of social fields, they argued, means that the analytical starting points are not predetermined and that units of analysis can span nation-state borders.…”

Section: Bourdieu’s Social Theory and Transnationalismmentioning

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Refugees’ Transnational Practices: Gay Iranian Men Navigating Refugee Status and Cross-border Ties in Canada

Karimi

2019

Social Currents

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Despite the rise in displaced population numbers, refugees’ transnational lives, and those of sexual-racial minority refugees in particular, have remained at the margins of transnational migration studies. In this article, I focus on the case of gay Iranian refugees in Canada and analyze their pre-migration transnational lives and understandings of the asylum process, their post-migration transnational ties, and their activism practices. I underline refugees’ transnational agencies and argue against the rhetoric that represents refugees as passive migrants whose emigration means detachment from home countries. Based on my field work findings, I endorse analytical and methodological shifts to simultaneously explore refugees’ pre-migration and en-route lives in addition to their post-migration lives to stress the power relations that, through social ties, affect refugees’ transnational practices. I connect transnational, forced, and queer migration literature to the Bourdieusian social theory and, in conclusion, argue that it is necessary to deploy de-nationalized methods of inquiry to account for intra-group diversities as well as border-crossing social ties in addition to economic ties.

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Section: Bourdieu’s Social Theory and Transnationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refugees’ Transnational Practices: Gay Iranian Men Navigating Refugee Status and Cross-border Ties in Canada

Karimi

2019

Social Currents

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“…As a conceptual framework, field theory has been heralded across multiple subfields of sociology, including political sociology (Steinmetz ; Swartz ), global/transnational studies (Go and Krause Forthcoming), organizational theory (King and Walker ), and media studies (Benson and Neveu ) among others, for its capacity to bridge micro and macro levels of action, to overcome the duality of structure and agency, and to recognize the relational nature of social action. Similarly, sociologists fruitfully have brought field theory to the study of the non‐profit sector, and in so doing have upended long‐standing assumptions about the atomistic and unique nature of social action in this third space, as reflective of the subfield's origins in economics, political science, and psychology.…”

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“…Field theory has become an increasingly popular conceptual framework within the discipline of sociology (Benson and Neveu ; Go and Krause Forthcoming; King and Walker ; Martin ; Steinmetz ). Field theory encompasses both a unit of analysis and a set of conceptual claims about social action.…”

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Varieties of Field Theory and the Sociology of the Non‐profit Sector

Barman

2016

Sociology Compass

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This paper reviews the use of field theory in the sociological study of the non-profit sector. The review first shows how field theory, as a conceptual framework to explain social action, provides a valuable sociological counterweight to prevailing economic and psychological orientations in the interdisciplinary scholarship on the non-profit sector. However, despite its certain shared assumptions, field theory in sociology encompasses three distinct, albeit interrelated, approaches: the Bourdieusian, New Institutionalist, and Strategic Action Fields perspectives. I comparatively outline the key analytical assumptions and causal claims of each version of field theory, whether and how it recognizes the specificity of the non-profit sector and then delineate its application by sociologists to the non-profit sector. I show how scholars' employment of each articulation of field theory to study non-profit activity has been inf luenced by pre-existing scholarly assumptions and normative claims about this third space. The article concludes by summarizing the use of these varieties of field theory in the sociology of the non-profit sector and by identifying future directions in this line of research.Field Theory and Non-profits 443 446 Field Theory and Non-profits

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“…The concept of field has inspired decades of research across sociological subfields with contributions, for example, to the sociology of art (Bourdieu ; Sapiro ), the sociology of media (e.g., Champagne ; Marchetti ; Benson and Neveu ; Benson ), religion (McKinnon, Trzebiakowska and Brittain ), and science (Bourdieu ; Albert and Kleinman ; Panofsky ). Initially focused on national fields, there is now a significant body of research that also includes sub‐ (e.g., McQuarrie ), supra (e.g., Go ), and transnational fields (e.g., Hagan and Levi ; Guilhot ; Dezalay and Garth ; Go and Krause ).…”

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How fields vary

Krause

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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Field theorists have long insisted that research needs to pay attention to the particular properties of each field studied. But while much field-theoretical research is comparative, either explicitly or implicitly, scholars have only begun to develop the language for describing the dimensions along which fields can be similar to and different from each other. In this context, this paper articulates an agenda for the analysis of variable properties of fields. It discusses variation in the degree but also in the kind of field autonomy. It discusses different dimensions of variation in field structure: fields can be more or less contested, and more or less hierarchical. The structure of symbolic oppositions in a field may take different forms. Lastly, it analyses the dimensions of variation highlighted by research on fields on the sub- and transnational scale. Post-national analysis allows us to ask how fields relate to fields of the same kind on different scales, and how fields relate to fields on the same scale in other national contexts. It allows us to ask about the role resources from other scales play in structuring symbolic oppositions within fields. A more fine-tuned vocabulary for field variation can help us better describe particular fields and it is a precondition for generating hypotheses about the conditions under which we can expect to observe fields with specified characteristics.

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Fielding Transnationalism: An Introduction

Cited by 35 publications

References 96 publications

Refugees’ Transnational Practices: Gay Iranian Men Navigating Refugee Status and Cross-border Ties in Canada

Refugees’ Transnational Practices: Gay Iranian Men Navigating Refugee Status and Cross-border Ties in Canada

Varieties of Field Theory and the Sociology of the Non‐profit Sector

How fields vary

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