Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for global research in the 21st century.

Foreword / Saskia Sassen
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction / Hilary E. Kahn
1. AFFECT-Making the Global through Care / Deirdre McKay
2. DISPLACEMENT-Framing the Global Relationally / Faranak Miraftab
3. FORMS-Art Institutions as Global Forms in India and Beyond: Cultural Production, Temporality, and Place / Manuela Ciotti
4. FRAMES-Reframing Oceania: Lessons from Pacific Studies / Katerina Martina Teaiwa
5. GENEALOGIES-Connecting Spaces in Historical Studies of the Global / Prakash Kumar
6. LAND-Engaging with the Global: Perspectives on Land from Botswana / Anne Griffiths
7. LOCATION-Film and Media Location: Toward a Dynamic and Scaled Sense of Global Place / Stephanie DeBoer
8. MATERIALITY-Transnational Materiality / Zsuzsa Gille
9. THE PARTICULAR-The Persistence of the Particular in the Global / Rachel Harvey
10. RIGHTS-The Rise of Rights and Nonprofit Organizations in East African Societies / Alex Perullo
11. RULES-Global Production and the Puzzle of Rules / Tim Bartley
12. SCALE-Exploring the "Global '68" / Deborah Cohen and Lessie Jo Frazier
13. SEASCAPE-The Chinese Atlantic /Sean Metzger
14. SOVEREIGNTY-Crisis, Humanitarianism, and the Condition of Twenty-First-Century Sovereignty / Michael Mascarenhas
Contributors
Index

Hilary E. Kahn is Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University. She is author of Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond.