Framing the Global Entry Points for Research [Paperback]

Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for global research in the 21st century.

[T]his text should be read not only by graduate students, but all scholars preparing to conduct global social science research. It provides reflections on many of the complex theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that inevitably arise along the way, but that researchers are often unprepared toencounter. . . . The importance of interdisciplinary scholarship providing clear insights about how global research questions are asked and answered is rendered even more significant by this well-curated collection.[A] stimulating and well-researched book that clearly makes a contribution to scholarship in global studies. . . . [O]ffers a wide variety of ways to conceptualize, represent, and investigate, or, as its title suggests, 'frame' the global.

Hilary E. Kahn is Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University. She is author of Seeing and Being Seen: The Qeqchi Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond.

Foreword / Saskia Sassen
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction / Hilary E. Kahn
1. AFFECTMaking the Global through Care / Deirdre McKay
2. DISPLACEMENTFraming the Global Relationally / Faranak Miraftab
3. FORMSArt Institutions as Global Forms in India and Beyond: Cultural Production, Temporality, and Place / Manuela Ciotti
4. FRAMESReframing Oceania: Lessons from Pacific Studies / Katerina Martina Teaiwa
5. GENEALOGIESConnecting Spaces in Historical Studies of the Global / Prakash Kumar
6. LANDEngaging with the Global: Perspectives on Land from Botswana / Anne Griffiths
7. LOCATIONFilm and Media Location: Toward a Dynamic and Scaled Sense of Global Place / StephalC3