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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456782503321

Titolo

Performing global networks [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Karen Fricker and Ronit Lentin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-282-19079-2

9786612190797

1-4438-0703-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FrickerKaren

LenṭinRonit

Disciplina

302.4

Soggetti

Social networks

Social networks - Ireland

Globalization - Social aspects

Globalization - Social aspects - Ireland

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

" ... Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin, that the research group responsible for the body of research on global networks presented here, was encouraged and funded."--Foreword.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Networks are everywhere: from migrant organisations to information technology, from business to social movements, from international governance to global non-governmental organisations, from theatrical collectives to fan clubs, from memory sites to narrative circles. The portmanteau terms networks, and more specifically, global networks, seem to have become the mots du jour in contemporary cultural and social studies. But what cultural, social and political work do global networks accomplish:...