Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Catharina I. Keßler
• Simona Szakács-Behling
• Claudia Machold
• Sabine Hornberg
• Astrid Messerschmidt

Titel

Researching the Transnational and Transnationalizing the Research: Towards a Methodological Turn in Education

Ist Teil von

• Jenseits des Nationalen?, 2020, p.183

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Verlag Barbara Budrich

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

UTB Scholars

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Critiques of methodological nationalism and ‘container-logic’ are widespread in the social sciences and have been spearheaded by work in anthropology and sociology (Amelina/Faist 2012, Beck/Sznaider 2006). The field of migration has been significantly rejuvenated by early arguments that seeing cultures as clearly-delimited and impenetrable ‘billiard balls’ (Wolf 1982), or nations as ‘boxes’ containing social phenomena is not reflecting the realities of the empirical world. Calls for understanding the social in nationally unbounded ways (Wimmer/Glick Schiller 2002) have resulted in new research agendas emphasizing the importance of flows, mobilities and technologies in understanding our (seemingly) borderless ‘brave new world’ (e.g. Gille/Riain