Imagining Globalization: Language, Identities, and Boundaries

This collection gives voice to the peoples and groups impacted by globalization as they seek to negotiate their identities, language use, and territorial boundaries within a larger global context. Rather than viewing globalization as one-dimensional (i.e., cultural, economic, or political), the approaches taken by the authors reflect a nuanced and multifaceted discussion of globalization that integrates all three perspectives. They explore identity, boundaries, language use, and other issues in the context of specific temporal and spatial contexts.

This collection gives voice to the peoples and groups impacted by globalization as they seek to negotiate their identities, language use, and territorial boundaries within a larger global context. Rather than viewing globalization as one-dimensional (i.e., cultural, economic, or political), the approaches taken by the authors reflect a nuanced and multifaceted discussion of globalization that integrates all three perspectives. They explore identity, boundaries, language use, and other issues in the context of specific temporal and spatial contexts.

Ho Hon Leung is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Center for Social Science Research at SUNY College at Oneonta. His research interests include ethnic relations, immigrants, ethnic aging and globalization. He has developed a new research interest in ethno-cultural identity and architecture with Raymond Lau. They are writing a book on the intertwining relationship between ethno-cultural identity and architecture. Dr. Leung is the co-editor and contributor to Investigating Diversity: Race, Ethnicity, and Beyond, (2008). He is also the author of “The Road Less Taken: Settlement of Chinese Immigrants in Small Towns” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 16, No.1, 2007.

Matthew Hendley is Associate Professor of History at SUNY College at Oneonta and has published articles in the Canadian Journal of History, Albion, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association as well as a book chapter in The Culture of Fascism: Visions of the Far Right in Britain, co-edited by Julie Gottlieb and Thomas Linehan (2004). His dissertation, “Patriotic Leagues and the Evolution of Popular Patriotism and Imperialism in Great Britain 1914-32” received Honorable Mention for the John Bullen Prize [for best doctoral dissertation accepted at a Canadian university]. Dr. Hendley received a Research and Scholarship Award for excellence in scholarship from Research Foundation of the State University of New York in 2007 and the Richard Siegfried Prize for Academic Excellence from SUNY Oneonta in 2003.

Robert Compton is Associate Professor of Political Science at SUNY College at Oneonta. His research interests focus on political development in East Asia and Southern Africa. In addition to journal publications, he is the editor of and contributor to Transforming East Asian Domestic and International Politics (2002) and author of East Asian Democratization: Impact of Globalization, Culture, and Economy (2000). A 2008 US Fulbright Scholar to Zimbabwe, he taught at the University of Zimbabwe and was also a Visiting Scholar, at the Center for Civil Society (CCS), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa in 2007.

Brian D. Haley is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at SUNY College at Oneonta, is author of “Anthropology and the Making of Chumash Tradition” (Current Anthropology, 1997), “How Spaniards Become Chumash and Other Tales of Ethnogenesis” (American Anthropologist, 2005) and Reimagining the Immigrant: The Accommodation of Mexican Immigrants in Rural America (Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming).