http://www.globalnetworksjournal.com/
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1470-2266&site=1
Global Networks is a new journal devoted to the social scientific
understanding of globalization and transnationalism.
Blackwell
In the 21st century emerging transnational actors will play an ever
more important role in both global and local affairs. They represent
the human face of globalization. Such actors enter into the spaces
opened up by the intersection of corporate capital, labour mobility
and the new information, communication and transportation
technologies. A feature of globe-spanning interactions of all kinds
is the building and sustaining of social, economic, political and
cultural networks. These global networks are constituted by dynamic
and often flexible connections between individuals, family-members,
firms, social groups, and organisations. They transcend territorial
borders, challenging the claims of cultural and economic self-
sufficiency made by nations and communities. Such transnational
processes, from below as well as above, present profound challenges
and opportunities to states, corporations, cities and territorial-
based actors. They also enable the imagination and construction of
innovative forms of human solidarity and citizenship. Embedded in
global networks, some actors resist globalization, others search for
alternatives, both legal and criminal. Some places and communities
are empowered, others are switched off.
Global Networks publishes high quality, refereed articles on global
networks, transnational affairs and practices and their relation to
wider theories of globalization. The journal provides a forum for
discussion, debate and the refinement of key ideas in this emerging
field. It includes World View essays designed to elicit discussion
and Book Review essays on major publications. The international team
of editors are committed to open and critical dialogue and encourage
the reasoned scrutiny of claims about the coming shape of the world.
Contributions are welcome from any field of study, including
anthropology, geography, international political economy, business
studies and sociology, and also include history, political science,
international relations, cultural studies and urban and regional
studies.
The Editor
Global Networks
Keble College
Oxford OX1 3PG
Tel: +44 (0)1865 272713
Fax: +44 (0)1865 274718
email: global.networks@???
Editorial Team
Editorial Office
Dr A. Rogers, The Editor Global Networks, Keble College, Oxford, OX1
3PG, UK
Email: global.networks@???
Tel: 44 (0)1865 272713, Fax: 44 (0) 1865 274718
Editor
Dr Alisdair Rogers
School of Geography and the Environment
Mansfield Road
Oxford, OX1 3TB, UK
Email ali.rogers@???
Tel: 44 (0)1865 272713 (direct line) or 271919 (messages)
Co-Editors
Professor Steve Vertovec
Centre for Migration Policy and Society
58 Banbury Road
Oxford, OX2 6QS, UK
Email steven.vertovec@???
Tel: 44 (0)1865 274719
Professor Robin Cohen
Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
Email r.cohen@???
Tel: 44 (0)24 7657 4736
Regional Editors
North America and the Caribbean Editor
Professor Nancy Foner, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City
University of New York, USA
Latin American Editor
Professor Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Department of Human and Community
Development, University of California Davis, California, USA
Asia Editor
Dr Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Department of Geography, National
University of Singapore, Sinapore
Africa Editor
Jimi O. Adesina, Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, Republic
of South Africa
Europe Editor
Dr. Marco Martiniello, University of Liège, Faculté de Droit -
Science Politique, Liège, Belgium
Associate Editors
Dr Ayse Çaglar, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Professor Katharyne Mitchell, Department of Geography, University of
Washington, Seattle, USA
Professor Stephen C. Calleya, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic
Studies, University of Malta, Malta
Professor Robert C. Smith, Department of Anthropology, Barnard
College, Columbia University, New York, USA
Dr Gary Bridge, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK
Editorial Board
John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Manuel Castells, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Stephen Castles, University of Oxford, UK
Peter Dicken, University of Manchester, UK
Jeff Crisp, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva,
Switzerland
Daniel Friedmann, Centre d'Études Transdisciplinaires, Paris, France
Frank Gregory, University of Southampton, UK
Noriko Hama, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University, Sweden
David Held, London School of Economics, UK
Jeffrey Henderson, Manchester Business School, UK
Richard Higgott, University of Warwick, UK
Bruce Hoffman, RAND Corporation, Washington DC, USA
Ravindra K. Jain, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Paul Kennedy, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada
Patricia Mohammed, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Richard O'Brien, Outsights, London, UK
Alejandro Portes, Princeton University, UK
Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Mari Sako, Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK
Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Michael Peter Smith, University of California, Davis, USA
Andreas Wimmer, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Steve Woolgar, Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK
Call for Papers
The journal welcomes article submissions on
such topics as:
key theoretical debates and issues such as, the global age, the
network society, and the informational society; the history and
current conditions of transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, diasporas,
new global actors and alternative paths of globalization.
the political economy of global networks, transnational class
formation, business networks, commodity chains, the digital economy,
and diasporic trading communities, as well as flows of investment,
remittances, entitlements, and taxes embedded in multiple locales.
the scope and powers of the state in a period of globalization,
transnational and inter-governmental governance; post-national and
dual citizenship, expatriate voting, lobbying, and involvement in
homeland affairs.
transnational social and political movements and actors in labour,
development, environment, feminism, human rights, spirituality,
corporate responsibility etc.; terrorist and criminal networks, and
their insinuation into formal or legal institutions.
the implications of global networks for core socio-cultural interests
as identity, religion, gender, family, household, intimacy, hate,
trust, status, and community; the creation of cultural fields by mass
media and new communication technologies; the embedding of knowledge
and information in technological processes.
the opening up of transnational social spaces such as emerging
trading spaces, border zones and communities, multicultural and
cosmopolitan cities, and virtual or digital communities.
