Transregional studies

Middell, Matthias

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“…They were trans-regional in the sense that their operators took part in constructing particular transnational business regions. 63 Moreover, business organization and the geographies of supply networks varied from one theatrical genre to another. As a result, there were various options of how to provide theaters in Montreal with shows: some houses were included into regional theatrical circuits that spanned the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada, such as the Jacobs-Proctor circuit or Sparrow's burlesque and music hall circuit.…”

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A Middleman’s Process: Booking and Managing Musical Theater Venues in Montreal from the 1880s to the First World War

Dietze

2020

Journal of Urban History

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This article focuses on the way musical theater venues in Montreal were booked and managed during the continental integration of North American theater industries from the 1880s to the First World War. It investigates how local theater owners and managers cooperated with representatives of U.S.-American circuits and booking agencies that provided the shows. They had to find ways to reconcile the fragmented audiences in the bilingual city with the increasingly standardized theatrical offers available. A closer look at different kinds of mediating actors and organizations and at the range and mechanisms of the supply networks explains why those relations often did not remain anchored in a particular venue over a longer period. The profiles of theaters in Montreal shifted frequently when an especially dynamic phase of social and cultural specialization in the urban sphere overlapped with growing trans-regional rivalries between competing theatrical circuits.

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A Middleman’s Process: Booking and Managing Musical Theater Venues in Montreal from the 1880s to the First World War

Dietze

2020

Journal of Urban History

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“…Religious "Portals of Globalization" Readers will have already noticed the frequent use of "transregional" instead of the more established concept of "transnationalism". By doing so, I followed an approach put forward by Matthias Middell and his Leipzig research group, who employ this terminology to highlight a greater diversity of spatial formats than the nation state (Middell 2018). They join a growing choir of critics who discard "transnational" because it takes the nation for granted.…”

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Nodes and Hubs: An Exploration of Yiguandao Temples as ‘Portals of Globalization’

Broy

2022

Religions

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This paper takes a fresh look at the global spread of the Chinese–Taiwanese new religious movement Yiguandao (一貫道; the emic transcription is “I-Kuan Tao”) by directing attention to the concrete places where transnational connections and interactions actually transpire, i.e., temples, shrines, and other sites of worship. Emically known as “Buddha halls” (fotang 佛堂), these places range from large-scale temple complexes, to small niches of worship in people’s private residences. Yet, they all share the potential of becoming venues of transregional interactions through processes of migration, the circulation of personnel, and local outreach. I argued that we need to take the distinct character of these localities more seriously, in order to fully understand the global networks of Yiguandao groups. Through their specific embeddedness in both local affairs and transnational projects, these temples are not simply local chapters of the (mostly) Taiwanese headquarters, but instead they are “translocalities” or even “portals of globalization”—two concepts developed in migration and global studies to help understand the significance of place in the recent phase of so-called globalization. By exploring Yiguandao temples across the globe, this paper critically evaluated these approaches, and their usefulness for the study of global religions. Empirically, it drew on both print and online material, as well as ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Taiwan, Vienna (Austria), California, South Africa, and Japan from 2016 to 2018.

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“…The main conclusion of the debate was that in contrast to a naive comparison, which took its units of analysis for granted, the investigation of interactions between societies and its relationship to the study of bounded spatial formations such as empires, nation-states, or regions has to be conceptualized in a much more nuanced way. It also became clear that such interactions produce new spaces and are not likely to solely follow predetermined pathways within given spatial frames (Middell 2018).…”

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The Routledge Handbook of transregional studies

Melber

2022

The Round Table

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The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies brings together the various fields within which transregional phenomena are scientifically observed and analysed. This handbook presents the theoretical and methodological potential of such studies for the advancement of the conceptualization of global and area-bound developments.Following three decades of intense debate about globalization and transnationalism, it has become clear that border-crossing connections and interactions between societies are highly important, yet not all extend beyond the borders of nation-states or are of truly world-wide reach. The product of extensive international and interdisciplinary cooperation, this handbook is divided into ten sections that introduce the wide variety of topics within transregional studies, including Colonialism and Post-Colonial Studies, Spatial Formats, International Organizations, Religions and Religious Movements, and Transregional Studies and Narratives of Globalization. Recognizing that transregional studies asks about the space-making and space-formatting character of connections as well as the empirical status of such connections under the global condition, the volume reaches beyond the typical confines of area and regional studies to consider how areas are transcended and transformed more widely.Combining case studies with both theoretical and methodological considerations, The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies provides the first overview of the currently flourishing field of transregional studies and is the ideal volume for students and scholars of this diverse subject and its related fields.

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Transregional studies

Cited by 7 publications

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A Middleman’s Process: Booking and Managing Musical Theater Venues in Montreal from the 1880s to the First World War

A Middleman’s Process: Booking and Managing Musical Theater Venues in Montreal from the 1880s to the First World War

Nodes and Hubs: An Exploration of Yiguandao Temples as ‘Portals of Globalization’

The Routledge Handbook of transregional studies

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