Ambivalent elites and conservative modernizers : studying sideways in transnational contexts
Spacially dispersed transnational professional communities can be perceived of as cultural formations living in a global frame of reference, transgressing existing political and cultural boundaries. In their capacity as members of local technical and knowledgebased elites, they take part in circulating and connecting cultural meanings that are both locally produced, and continuously re-working non- local flows. I argue that those elites can be described as actors at cultural interfaces, taking part in shaping and mediating social change. The aim is twofold: one, to point to mutually opposed tendencies, and ambivalences in the framework of a „culture of change“, and two, to look into the question how such situations and groups can be methodologically approached.
| Author: | Petra Ilyes |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-36687 |
| Series (Serial Number) | Research Group Transnationalism Working Paper (2) |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 24.01.2007 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Tag: | ambivalent elites ; conservative modernisers ; information technology ; methodology; socialchange ; transnational professional communities |
| HeBIS PPN: | 188729313 |
| Institutes: | Kulturwissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 390 Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Note: | Paper for the conference „Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie,“ January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
