TopAims and Scope

Global Networks is a path-breaking journal devoted to the social scientific understanding of globalization and transnationalism.

In the twenty-first century emerging transnational actors will play an ever more important role in both global and local affairs. They represent the human face of globalization. Such actors enter into the spaces opened up by the intersection of corporate capital, labour mobility and the new information, communication and transportation technologies. A feature of globe-spanning interactions of all kinds is the building and sustaining of social, economic, political and cultural networks. These global networks are constituted by dynamic and often flexible connections between individuals, family-members, firms, social groups, and organizations. They transcend territorial borders, challenging the claims of cultural and economic self-sufficiency made by nations and communities. Such transnational processes, from below as well as above, present profound challenges and opportunities to states, corporations, cities and territorial-based actors. They also enable the imagination and construction of innovative forms of human solidarity and citizenship. Embedded in global networks, some actors resist globalization, others search for alternatives, both legal and criminal. Some places and communities are empowered, others are switched off.

• Contributions on these themes are welcome from across the disciplines. The editors are particularly interested in research-based articles which adopt a transnational perspective rather than a national one e.g. using methods data sources and concepts outside the long-established 'methodological nationalism' of the social sciences
• an emphasis on networks, flows, connections etc
• an acknowledgement of human agency, in keeping with a perspective on globalization 'from below'
• contributions that draw upon either different disciplines or engage with the relations between broadly economic and sociocultural influences.

See also: www.globalnetworksjournal.com Book Review Essays From time to time Global Networks will publish book review essays on selected texts of relevance to the journal's aims. Books for review and related inquiries should be sent to the Editor (address below). Special Issues The editors may consider proposals for special issues on topics significant to the journal's aims. Advice on guidelines for such proposals may be obtained from the Editor (address below) The Editor, Global Networks, Keble College, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 3PG, United Kingdom. Email: global.networks@keble.ox.ac.uk

Readership Global Networks is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, international NGOs, business networks and international foundations.

TopIndexed / Abstracted in

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Economics and Finance (11th edition) Current Contents® (Thomson ISI) GEOBASE/Geographical & Geological Abstracts (Elsevier) IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (LSE) International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Social Sciences Citation Index® (Thomson ISI) Social Services Abstracts (CSA/CIG) Sociological Abstracts (CSA/CIG)