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Methodological Nationalism (methodological + nationalism)

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Selected Abstracts

Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology,

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, Issue 3 2003
Andreas Wimmer
The article examines methodological nationalism, a conceptual tendency that was central to the development of the social sciences and undermined more than a century of migration studies. Methodological nationalism is the naturalization of the global regime of nation-states by the social sciences. Transnational studies, we argue, including the study of transnational migration, is linked to periods of intense globalization such as the turn of the twenty-first century. Yet transnational studies have their own contradictions that may reintroduce methodological nationalism in other guises. In studying migration, the challenge is to avoid both extreme fluidism and the bounds of nationalist thought. [source]

Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation,state building, migration and the social sciences

GLOBAL NETWORKS, Issue 4 2002
Andreas Wimmer
Methodological nationalism is understood as the assumption that the nation/state/society is the natural social and political form of the modern world. We distinguish three modes of methodological nationalism that have characterized mainstream social science, and then show how these have influenced research on migration. We discover parallels between nationalist thinking and the conceptualization of migration in postwar social sciences. In a historical tour d'horizon, we show that this mainstream concept has developed in close interaction with nation,state building processes in the West and the role that immigration and integration policies have played within them. The shift towards a study of ,transnational communities', the last phase in this process , was more a consequence of an epistemic move away from methodological nationalism than of the appearance of new objects of observation. The article concludes by recommending new concepts for analysis that, on the one hand, are not coloured by methodological nationalism and, on the other hand, go beyond the fluidism of much contemporary social theory. [source]

Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology,

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, Issue 3 2003
Andreas Wimmer
The article examines methodological nationalism, a conceptual tendency that was central to the development of the social sciences and undermined more than a century of migration studies. Methodological nationalism is the naturalization of the global regime of nation-states by the social sciences. Transnational studies, we argue, including the study of transnational migration, is linked to periods of intense globalization such as the turn of the twenty-first century. Yet transnational studies have their own contradictions that may reintroduce methodological nationalism in other guises. In studying migration, the challenge is to avoid both extreme fluidism and the bounds of nationalist thought. [source]

Toward a New Critical Theory with a Cosmopolitan Intent

CONSTELLATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, Issue 4 2003
Ulrich Beck
In this article I want to outline an argument for a New Critical Theory with a cosmopolitan intent. Its main purpose is to undermine one of the most powerful beliefs of our time concerning society and politics. This belief is the notion that "modern society" and "modern politics" are to be understood as society and politics organized around the nation-state, equating society with the national imagination of society. There are two aspects to this body of beliefs: what I call the "national perspective" (or "national gaze") of social actors, and the "methodological nationalism" of scientific observers. The distinction between these two perspectives is important because there is no logical co-implication between them, only an interconnected genesis and history. [source]

Geographies of Financialization in Disarray: The Dutch Case in Comparative Perspective

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, Issue 1 2010
Ewald Engelen
abstract The securitization crisis that started in mid-2007 has demonstrated that we are indeed living in a "global financial village" and are all subject to the vagaries of financialization. Nevertheless, the fallout from the credit crisis has not been homogeneous across space. That some localities were hit harder than others suggests that there are distinct geographies of financialization. Combining insights from the "varieties of capitalism" literature with those from the literature on "financialization studies," the article offers a first take on what may explain these different geographies on the basis of an informal comparison of the trajectories of financialization and their political repercussions in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands. The article ends with some reflections on how economic geography could be enriched by combining comparative studies on institutionalism and financialization, while its distinct research focus,detailed spatial analysis endowed with a well-developed sensitivity for geographic variegation,may help overcome the methodological nationalism of much comparative institutionalism. [source]

Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation,state building, migration and the social sciences

GLOBAL NETWORKS, Issue 4 2002
Andreas Wimmer
Methodological nationalism is understood as the assumption that the nation/state/society is the natural social and political form of the modern world. We distinguish three modes of methodological nationalism that have characterized mainstream social science, and then show how these have influenced research on migration. We discover parallels between nationalist thinking and the conceptualization of migration in postwar social sciences. In a historical tour d'horizon, we show that this mainstream concept has developed in close interaction with nation,state building processes in the West and the role that immigration and integration policies have played within them. The shift towards a study of ,transnational communities', the last phase in this process , was more a consequence of an epistemic move away from methodological nationalism than of the appearance of new objects of observation. The article concludes by recommending new concepts for analysis that, on the one hand, are not coloured by methodological nationalism and, on the other hand, go beyond the fluidism of much contemporary social theory. [source]

Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology,

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, Issue 3 2003
Andreas Wimmer
The article examines methodological nationalism, a conceptual tendency that was central to the development of the social sciences and undermined more than a century of migration studies. Methodological nationalism is the naturalization of the global regime of nation-states by the social sciences. Transnational studies, we argue, including the study of transnational migration, is linked to periods of intense globalization such as the turn of the twenty-first century. Yet transnational studies have their own contradictions that may reintroduce methodological nationalism in other guises. In studying migration, the challenge is to avoid both extreme fluidism and the bounds of nationalist thought. [source]

The Left Against Europe?

GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, Issue 2 2006
A Critical Engagement with New Constitutionalism, Structural Dependence Theory
This article offers a critical engagement with two important strands of left theorizations of European Union integration and globalization, namely, ,new constitutionalism' (a sub-form of neo-Gramscian analysis) and ,structural dependence' theory (rooted in a more orthodox Marxist approach). These approaches suffer, respectively, from an uncritical or one-sided approach to constitutionalism and competitiveness; and from a theoretical conflation of national with regional political economy. While new constitutionalism under-theorizes regionalism partly because of its implicit ,methodological nationalism' and attachment to the ethics of national political economy, structural dependence theory neglects regionalism in pursuing a highly pessimistic structuralist approach to globalization. [source]