4158 - Transnational Processes in the Contemporary World: Culture, Professionals, Activists, Expertise, and Technologies

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This session brings together papers that explore how professionals, activists, expertise, and technologies circulate and impact nations and the larger world. Hughes et al. investigate what appears to be a “non-state” turn among transnational activists who have gradually turned their attention from IGOs to INGOs. Seabrooke and Sending use the culture of professionals to explore what produces similarities and differences in international organization attributes over time. Mische examines how reform-minded Kenyan professionals use cultural technologies of “scenario planning” in development efforts aimed at steering towards the “futures we want.” Hanrieder explores the transnational construction of global health as a professional project. Shaffer uses a Bourdieusian perspective to explore how the struggle over economic, academic and symbolic capital has produced a global deficit in attention and financing to non-communicable diseases. These papers offer novel approaches to thinking about important issues related both to development issues and nation-states in the contemporary world.

Sub Unit

• Transnational Processes

Session Organizer

• Joseph A. Harris, Boston University

Individual Presentations

• A Non-State Turn? Assessing Cohort Differences in Women’s and Environmental Transnational Inter-Organizational Networks - Melanie M. Hughes, University of Pittsburgh; Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh; Samantha Snow Plummer, University of Pittsburgh; Basak Gemici, University of Pittsburgh; Caitlin Hays Schroering, University of Pittsburgh

• Seeing Around Corners: Pathways, Plausibilities and Politics in the “Kenya at the Crossroads” Scenarios - Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame

• The Bureaucratic Infrastructure of Globalization: How World Culture Informs Board Governance in International Organizations - Alexander Kentikelenis, University of Oxford; Leonard Seabrooke, Copenhagen Business School

• Re-scaling Humanitarianism: The Transnational Construction of Global Health in American Medicine - Tine Hanrieder

• Global Health Delivery as a Field of Struggle: Noncommunicable Diseases and the Biopolitics of Exclusion - Jonathan David Shaffer, Boston University

Discussant

• Gowri Vijayakumar, Brandeis University