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In the first full-length scholarly study of the increasingly
important phenomenon of digital diasporas, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
examines how immigrants who still feel a connection to their
country of origin use the internet. She argues that digital
diasporas can ease security concerns in both the homeland and the
host society, improve diaspora members' quality of life in the host
society, and contribute to socio-economic development in the
homeland. Drawing on case studies of nine digital diaspora
organizations, Brinkerhoff's research supplies new empirical
material regarding digital diasporas and their potential security
and development impacts. She also explores their impact on identity
negotiation, arguing that digital diasporas create communities and
organizations that represent hybrid identities and encourage
solidarity, identity, and material benefits among their members.
The book also explores these communities' implications for policy
and practice.
Scholarship is a multi-generational collective enterprise with a
commitment to advancing knowledge, inspiring reflection, and
facilitating stronger neighborhoods, cities and countries. This
book explicitly adopts this lens as a recognition of the
contributions of Prof. Terry Cooper to scholarship and practice,
and as a mechanism to connect the past to the present and
ultimately the future of scholarship in public ethics and citizen
engagement. This "multi-generational" approach is designed to
reveal the persistent and future ongoing need to engage as a
scholarly and practitioner community with these questions. The book
is broken into three main sections: citizenship and neighborhood
governance, public service ethics and citizenship, and global
explorations of citizenship and ethics. Unique in this collection
is the explicit linkage across the main focus areas of citizenship
and ethics, as well as the comparative and global context in which
these issues are explored. Cases and data are examined from the
United States, Chile, Thailand, India, China, Georgia, and Myanmar.
Ultimately, it is made clear through each individual chapter and
the collective whole that research on citizenship and ethics within
public affairs and service has a rich history, remains critical to
the strengthening of public institutions today, and will only
increase in global significance in the years ahead.
Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally
accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver
lasting change. Diasporans-immigrants who still feel a connection
to their country of origin-may offer an In-Between Advantage for
institutional reform, which links problem understanding with
potential solutions, and encompasses vision, impact, operational,
and psycho-social advantages. Individuals with entrepreneurial
characteristics can catalyzing institutional reform. Diasporans may
have particular advantages for entrepreneurship, as they live both
psychologically and materially between the place of origin they
left and the new destination they have embraced. Their
entrepreneurial characteristics may be accidental, cultivated
through the migration and diaspora experience, or innate to
individuals' personalities. This book articulates the diaspora
institutional entrepreneur In-Between Advantage, proposes a model
for understanding the characteristics and motivational influences
of entrepreneurs generally and how they apply to diaspora
entrepreneurs in particular, and presents a staged model of
institutional entrepreneur actions. I test these frameworks through
case narratives of social institutional reform in Egypt, economic
institutional reform in Ethiopia, and political institutional
reform in Chad. In addition to identifying policy implications,
this book makes important theoretical contributions in three areas.
First, it builds on existing and emerging critiques of
international development assistance that articulate prescriptions
related to alternative theories of change. Second, it fills an
important gap in the literature by focusing squarely on the role of
agency in institutional reform processes while still accounting for
organizational systems and socio-political contexts. In doing so,
it integrates a more expansive view of entrepreneurism into extant
understandings of institutional entrepreneurism, and it sheds light
on what happens in the frequently-invoked black box of agency.
Third, it demonstrates the fallacy of many theoretical frameworks
that seek to order institutional change processes into neatly
definable linear stages.
In the first full-length scholarly study of the increasingly
important phenomenon of digital diasporas, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
examines how immigrants who still feel a connection to their
country of origin use the internet. She argues that digital
diasporas can ease security concerns in both the homeland and the
host society, improve diaspora members' quality of life in the host
society, and contribute to socio-economic development in the
homeland. Drawing on case studies of nine digital diaspora
organizations, Brinkerhoff's research supplies new empirical
material regarding digital diasporas and their potential security
and development impacts. She also explores their impact on identity
negotiation, arguing that digital diasporas create communities and
organizations that represent hybrid identities and encourage
solidarity, identity, and material benefits among their members.
The book also explores these communities' implications for policy
and practice.
Transnational Actors in War and Peace provides a comparative
examination of a range of transnational actors who have been key to
the conduct of war and peace promotion, and of how they interact
with states and each other. It explores the identities,
organization, strategies and influence of transnational actors
involved in contentious politics, armed conflict, and peacemaking.
While the study of transnational politics has been a rapidly
growing field, to date, the disparate actors have not been analyzed
alongside each other, making it difficult to develop a common
theoretical framework or determine their influence on international
security. This book brings together a diverse set of scholars
focused on a range of transnational actors, such as: foreign
fighters, terrorists, private military security companies,
religious groups, diasporas, NGOs, and women's peace groups. Malet
and Anderson provide the standard for future study of transnational
actors in this work intended for those interested in security
studies, international relations, conflict resolution, and global
governance.
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