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Lisa Albrecht

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Transnational bodies: Embodiment of transnational settings

2016

AbstractThe everyday life of more and more people is characterized by transnationalism. People increasingly interact across borders and in a network of transnational relationships. While interactions may be border-crossing, the actors’ body remains situated and limited in time and space. However, the thesis of this paper is that transnationalism processes are embodied. Thus, we speak of an embodiment of transnational settings. We focus on symbolic interactionism – Charles H. Cooley and George H. Mead in particular provide a large repertoire of concepts – to theoretically conceive transnational bodies. To show how transnational embodiment can manifest itself we use the example of young peopl…

010405 organic chemistrymedia_common.quotation_subjectRepertoire05 social sciences0507 social and economic geographyMedia studiesGender studiesBody remainsSymbolic interactionism01 natural sciences0104 chemical sciencesEmbodied cognitionBeautySituatedTransnationalismSociologyEveryday life050703 geographymedia_commonTransnational Social Review
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Transnational lives. Transnational bodies? An introduction

2016

Over the past 20 years, both “the body” and “transnationalism” have been elaborated as sociological terms, empirically investigated as research topics, and finally established within the social-sci...

050903 gender studies05 social sciences0507 social and economic geographyTransnationalismGender studiesSociology0509 other social sciences050703 geographyTransnational Social Review
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