Global Fields and Imperial Forms
Field Theory and the British and American Empires
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2265478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Go (0000-0003-4309-7183, Boston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 201-229 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2008.00326.x |
| OpenAlex | W2051302947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 129 |
| References cited | 124 |
This article develops a global fields approach for conceptualizing the global arena. The approach builds upon existing approaches to the world system and world society while articulating them with the field theory of Bourdieu and organizational sociology. It highlights particular structural configurations ('spaces of relations') and the specific cultural content ('rules of the game' and 'symbolic capital') of global systems. The utility of the approach is demonstrated through an analysis of the different forms of the two hegemonic empires of the past centuries, Great Britain and the United States. The British state tended toward formal imperialism in the 19th century, characterized by direct territorial rule, while the United States since WWII has tended toward informal imperialism. The essay shows that the difference can be best explained by considering the different historical global fields in which the two empires operated
Archaeology · Epistemology · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · History · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Foreign Policy and Identity
Politics of Desecularization
Field Theory
Polycentrism
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Spaces between Fields
Hegemonic Field Effects in World Politics
Asymmetry, Hierarchy, and the Ecclesiastes Trap
Lateral Relations in World Politics
The Way of Progress and Civilization”
The Dynamics of Global Power Politics
Anarchy and Authority
Beyond State and Hegemony
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Is Journalism a Transnational Field? Asymmetrical Relations and Symbolic Domination in Online News
Sociology’s Imperial Unconscious
Ordering Resistance
Japanese Colonial Structure in Korea in Comparative Perspective
German Sociology and Empire
Rethinking the Colonial State
Theoretical Labors Necessary for a Global Sociology
Authoritarian Journalism
The Paradoxes of Aid Work
Die Vermessung der Kunstwelt
How the East Was Won
Social Movements and International Order Formation
Is journalism a transnational field? Asymmetrical relations and symbolic domination in online news
Legacies of Place and Power
Bourdieu, International Relations, and European security
Indicators of Militarism and Democracy in Comparative Context
Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace
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Standpoint theory and middle-range theorizing in International Sociology
Rethinking the nation and international relations
Fielding Supranationalism
From Antagonism to Fusion
Grounded Nationalism in the Context of Cosmopolitanization
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Scales, Reefs and Bureaucracies - International Political Fieldworks
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Configurational Field Analysis
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Communities of practice, impression management, and great power status
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Change in and through practice
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Demographic Regulators in Small-Scale World-Systems
International Law, Security, and Sanctions
Mediterranean Style Gated Communities around the World
The Voldemort of Imperial History
The Relation between Imperialism and Nationalism in the German Empire and its Aftermath
Forum-shifting from above and below
Right(s) practice
Decolonising Durkheimian Conceptions of the International
Citizenship Capital
Hegemonic-order theory
Struggles over epistemic capital
Introduction
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Journalism Beyond the Nation-State
Violent Conflictition
Rating Prestige
The Venezuelan Government and the Global Field
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The lawyers’ war
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What is a global field? Theorizing fields beyond the nation-state
Who gets to lead the multinational team? An updated status characteristics perspective
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Viral Governance
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Fields of Practice
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Transient States and Timeless Ties
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O multicampo acadêmico
The academic multifield
How fields vary
The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Studies of the modern world-system
Research in Organizational Behavior
Colonialism
American exceptionalism
Roosevelt and Hopkins
America’s Overseas Garrisons
America's Mission
The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective
National Interests in International Society
Territorial Changes and International Conflict
Before European Hegemony
The Evolution of International Society
Among Empires
World-Systems Analysis
Anticolonialism in British Politics
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes
Organizational environments
Distinction
Lords of all the world
Política entre las naciones
The Modern World-System II
Norms in International Relations
Activists beyond Borders
Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention
The Three Instances of Hegemony in the History of the Capitalist World-Economy
Economics and Empire
The Origins of Alliances
Distinction
Outline of a Theory of Practice
British Imperialism
Britain’s Imperial Century, 1815–1914
The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Culture and Power
The Nation and Its Fragments
The Logic of Practice
Was the Cold War a Security Dilemma
American World Empire or Declining Hegemony
Territorial Changes, 1816–1996
Return to Empire
The Triangular Route to Vietnam
The Meaning of Power
The primacy of geopolitics
The imperialism of decolonization
Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe
Security Seeking under Anarchy
The Impact of Napoleon Iii on British Politics, 1851–1880
Asserting Difference
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
The Imperial Republic
Imperialism at Bay
Imperialism
Studies in the Theory of Imperialism
The long twentieth century
Confronting the Third World
Imperialism and the Victorians
Great Britain and the Colonies, 1815-1865
Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace
The American Way of Empire
The colonial empires
European Decolonization 1918–1981
Empire
British Mercantile Attitudes towards Imperial Expansion
Anomaly and commonplace in European political expansion
The Japanese Islands
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Cooperation under the Security Dilemma
Bringing Society Back in
Toward a Theory of International Norms
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
Sovereignty
Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity
Norms, culture, and world politics
Colonial Empires and the Capitalist World-Economy
The Balance Sheets of Imperialism
The Iron Cage Revisited
The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
The Worldwide Diffusion of Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reform, 1977-1999
From Dependency to Sovereignty
ECA and the Dependent Territories
Americar Ideals versus American Institutions
The Imperialism of Free Trade
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
America's Imperial Ambition
The Three Instances of Hegemony in the History of the Capitalist World-Economy
The Rise and Fall of Western Colonialism
American Policy Toward Pacific Dependencies
The Dutch Seaborne Empire
The Problem of American Exceptionalism
In Other Words
The Trajectory of the United States in the World-System
Networks of Interorganizational Relations
Toward a Structural Perspective on the World-System
Social Skill and the Theory of Fields
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Structuring a Theory of Moral Sentiments
| Unique citing works | 129 |
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| Citations per year | 6,14 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 127 |