TY  - BOOK
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
A1  - Bernhard, Stefan
T1  - Charting transnational fields
BT  - methodology for a political sociology of knowledge
N2  - The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on the seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation, standardization and certification or supranational political structures. These transnational phenomena form part of general political struggles that legitimate social relationships in and beyond the nation state. Part 1 on "Methodological Foundations" discusses the consequences of Bourdieu's epistemology and methodology for theorizing and investigating transnational phenomena. The contributions show the import of field-theoretical concepts for post-national insights. Part 2 on "Investigating Political Fields" presents exemplary case studies in diverse research areas such as colonial imperialism, international academic rankings, European policy fields, and local school policy. While focusing on their research objects, the contributions also give an insight into the mechanisms involved in processes of transnationalization. The volume is an invitation for sociologists, political scientists and scholars in adjacent research areas to engage with reflexive and relational research practice and to further develop field-theoretical thought.
KW  - Politics & International Relations
KW  - Research Methods
KW  - Social Sciences
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-0-367-22418-9
SN  - 978-1-03-217385-6
SN  - 978-0-429-27494-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429274947
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
A1  - Bernhard, Stefan
ED  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
ED  - Bernhard, Stefan
T1  - How to chart transnational fields
BT  - introduction to a methodology for a political sociology of knowledge
T2  - Charting transnational fields
N2  - In this programmatic introduction, we lay out the foundations of an approach to analyzing knowledge-based political phenomena beyond the nation state from a field perspective. We understand transnational field analysis as a research program comprising genuine theoretical and methodological assumptions. While extant research is well aware of the theoretical assumptions of transnational field analysis, there is thus far relatively little awareness of the importance of its methodological premises. Addressing this imbalanced picture, we identify five methodological principles and specify consequences for studies of transnational fields. Our approach emphasizes that performing transnational field analysis goes beyond “taking a theory to the field”; it means engaging in and reflecting upon a complex research process that simultaneously draws upon and constructs theories of fields.
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-0-429-27494-7
SN  - 978-0-367-22418-9
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429274947-1
SP  - 1
EP  - 33
PB  - Routledge
CY  - Abingdon ; New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bernhard, Stefan
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
T1  - Einleitung
Y1  - 2012
SN  - 978-3-531-17871-4
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bernhard, Stefan
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
ED  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
T1  - Feldanalyse als Forschungsprogramm
Y1  - 2012
SN  - 978-3-531-17871-4
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bernhard, Stefan
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
T1  - Einleitung
Y1  - 2012
SN  - 978-3-531-18018-2
ER  -