Routledge Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter: Essays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalization (Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics)

This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields. It builds on the belief that the study of major issues in the global cultural and political economies benefit from a perspective that rejects the limitations imposed by established boundaries, whether disciplinary, conceptual, symbolic or material. Established and early career academics explore and embrace contemporary political sociology following the ‘global’ and ‘cultural’ turns of recent decades. Categories such as state, civil society, family, migration, citizenship and identity are interrogated and sometimes found to be ill-suited to the task of analyzing global complexities. The limits of global theory, the challenges of global citizenship, and the relationship between globalisation and situated and mobile subjects and objects are all referenced in this book. The book will be of interest to scholars of International Relations, Political Science, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Geography, Area studies and European studies. About the Author Barrie Axford is Professor Emeritus in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where he is also a member of the Centre for Global Politics Economy and Society (GPES). Alistair Brisbourne is a Research Manager at accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP, UK. Claudia Lueders is a Teaching Fellow in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Sandra Halperin is a Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.