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Puzzles in the Comparative Study of Frontiers: Problems, Some Solutions, and Methodological Implications

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title Puzzles in the Comparative Study of Frontiers: Problems, Some Solutions, and Methodological Implications
 
Creator Hall, Thomas D.
 
Description This paper examines ways in which world-system analysis can be employed fruitfully to explore frontier social processes. Conversely, it also examines how frontier social processes and events can be very valuable explorations of highly localized processes geographically and temporally of world-systems. The study of frontier regions can help to uncover the ways in which many world-systemic contexts shape local human agency. Conversely, the study of these highly localized human practices offers ways to gain insights to how individual actions constantly reconstruct world-systems. Finally, many of the lessons learned here with respect to frontiers, especially in regard to ethnic and national identity formation and transformation can be extended to other social concerns.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Date 2009-02-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/332
10.5195/jwsr.2009.332
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 15, Issue 1, 2009; 25-47
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/332/344
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Thomas D. Hall
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