The Multisite Nation Crossborder Organizations, Transfrontier Infras
This book explains the transformation of the nation into a cosmonation (or multisite nation) through the reunification of the homeland with its diaspora. The book elaborates on how the mechanisms of linkages, connections, and networking interact to f
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MULTISITE NATION CROSSBORDER ORGANIZATIONS, TRANSFRONTIER INFRASTRUCTURE, AND GLOBAL DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE MICHEL S. LAGUERRE
The Multisite Nation
Michel S. Laguerre
The Multisite Nation Crossborder Organizations, Transfrontier Infrastructure, and Global Digital Public Sphere
Michel S. Laguerre UC Berkeley Berkeley, California, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-56723-9 ISBN 978-1-137-56724-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56724-6
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PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The unbridled development of the globalization process, undoubtedly expressed through multidirectional immigration that is supported by mass transportation and enhanced by the routine use of social media, has unsettled the traditional territorial deployment of the nation. In its new manifestation, the nation is no longer seen as enclosed exclusively within a territory. Rather, it is viewed as a multisite social formation with a segment of its population in the homeland territory (and, in a few cases, former colonies) and another in diaspora: that is, outside its legally recognized geographical borders. The novelty of this distributional form of the nation is not simply geographical, territorial, and spatial; it is also jurisdictional, organizational, and definitional. Any attempt to explain the expanded contours of the transformed nation must, by necessity, reproblematize these structural features to show the intermingling of diaspora and homeland in the production of the crossborder nation. Prepared under the auspices of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the Institute of Governmental Studies of the University of California at
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