State Space – Outlining a Field Theoretical Approach

The state space concept is part of attempts to dismantle the 'territorial trap' and the concomitant dichotomy between national 'inside' and international 'outside'. This paper contributes to this scholarship by proposing the concept of transnational field as a tool for a nuanced understanding of the intermingling of the national and the global. The paper argues that the formative logic of globalization is not simply the growth of economic interconnections and dependencies, but also the dynamism related to competition and collaboration structuring inclusions, exclusions and awards in transnational fields. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This paper is based on research funded by the Academy of Finland grant 133521. The author is grateful for comments by three anonymous referees and the members of the University of Tampere Research Network on Transnational Socio-Cultural Processes (TRAP) on an earlier version of the manuscript. Notes 1. For example N. 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