Framing The Global: Entry Points For Research Paperback

Saskia Sassen

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.

9780253012968

English

Indiana University Press

22/May/14

352

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 Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond.

[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. * International Social Science Review * All in all this is an important, wide-ranging, and carefully produced overview of the current state of the field. * New Global Studies *