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Globalization, Transnationalism, and “Mobile Societies” from a Sociological Perspective: Comments on Engseng Ho's “Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2017

Jaeeun Kim
Jaeeun Kim*
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Jaeeun Kim (jaeeunk@umich.edu) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.
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Speaking across disciplines is always easier said than done. Engseng Ho's thought-provoking article strives to do just that (and achieves the goal nicely), with its broad overview of the literature, the numerous examples that it draws on, and the ambitious conceptual innovations it proposes. As the only sociologist invited to comment on Ho's article, I see my task as bringing Ho's article into fruitful conversation with my own discipline, which is known to be indifferent (if not hostile) to area studies and which (unfortunately) remains largely missing in Ho's imagined audience. I do so by drawing on my own work and some of the theoretical developments in the broader discipline in the past two decades or so. To make intelligible where my comments are coming from, let me begin by briefly introducing what sorts of questions interest me as a sociologist.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , November 2017 , pp. 935 - 941
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017 

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