Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalism and Transnationalism

Within the Knot

Edited By: Hyun Wu Lee, Mark van de Logt

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As globalization expands, reactionary forces like nationalism and populism have exposed its blind spots. This volume gathers leading scholars to analyze the human cost of immigration, the threats of online technologies, and other pressing challenges of our interconnected world.

As international trade and economic activities expand, online technologies spread, and restless populations shift across international boundaries, reactionary movements have sprung up around the globe. These reactionary forces, which include nationalism and populism, have exposed many blind-spots of ongoing globalization projects. To understand the frictions between transnational enterprises and local resistance more fully, as well as analyze the human cost of immigration and the threats posed by online technologies, scholars from around the world gathered in Doha, Qatar, for the Sixth Annual Liberal Arts International Conference (2018). This volume, based on selected papers from this meeting, discusses the roles and effects of transnational and cross-cultural education, technology, migrant workers and refugees, and research methodologies in order to understand current challenges surrounding globalization.

Hyun Wu Lee taught history at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He specializes in Early American and Atlantic World history. His article on Colonel Henry Bouquet’s plantations and the quartering dispute in Charles Town appeared in the South Carolina Historical Magazine (2016), and his research explores intercultural exchanges between British North America, the Mediterranean World, and Asia in the eighteenth century.

Mark van de Logt is an Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He specializes in Native American and Indigenous studies and US military history. He is the author of War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U. S. Army (2010) and Monsters of Contact: Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions (2018). His articles have appeared in various journals, including the Journal of Military History and the American Indian Quarterly.