Translocality
The Study of Globalising Processes from a Southern Perspective
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 25. January 2010
Book
Hardback
472 pages
978-90-04-18116-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume discusses globalising processes from the perspective of the humanities and social sciences. It focuses on the 'global south', notably the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Densely researched case studies examine a variety of approaches for their potential to understand connecting processes on different scales. The studies seek to overcome the main traps of the 'globalisation' paradigm, such as its occidental bias, its notion of linear expansion, its simplifying dichotomy between 'local' and 'global', and an often-found lack of historical depth. They elaborate the asymmetries, mobilities, opportunities and barriers involved in globalising processes. Their new perspective on these processes is captured by the concept of 'translocality', which aims at integrating a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches from different disciplines.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
10 s/w Zeichnungen
10 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
894 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-18116-8 (9789004181168)
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Persons
Ulrike Freitag, Ph.D. (1991) in History (Freiburg), is Director of Zentrum Moderner Orient and Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin. She has published Geschichtsschreibung in Syrien (1991) and Indian Ocean Migrants and the Reform of Hadhramaut (2003). Her current interests include urban social history and global history.
Achim von Oppen, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology (Berlin), is Professor of African History at Universitaet Bayreuth and former Deputy Director of Zentrum Moderner Orient. He has worked and published widely on social history and constructions of space in Central and East Africa.
Achim von Oppen, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology (Berlin), is Professor of African History at Universitaet Bayreuth and former Deputy Director of Zentrum Moderner Orient. He has worked and published widely on social history and constructions of space in Central and East Africa.
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Maps
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: 'Translocality': An Approach to Connection and Transfer in Regional Studies, Ulrike Freitag/Achim von Oppen
Part One: Marginal Mobilities
Wodaabe Women and the Outside World, Elisabeth Boesen
Chinese Women in the New Migration Process to Europe: Marginal or Main Actors?, Carine Pina-Guerassimoff
Proud Fighters, Blind Men: World War Experiences of Combatants from the Arab East, Katharina Lange
'Following the Hills': Gold Mining Camps as Heterotopias, Katja Werthmann
Part Two: Spaces on the Move
Mapping the Ocean: Visual Representations of the Indian Ocean in the Swahili Military Press during World War II, Katrin Bromber
Regional Attractions: World and Village in Kabylia (Algeria), Judith Scheele
Translocal 'Kinship' Relations in Central African Politics of the 19th Century, Beatrix Heintze
Part Three: Locality and beyond
Autochthony: Local or Global?, Peter Geschiere
Heritage and the Making of (Trans-) local Identities: A Case Study from the Curonian Spit (Lithuania), Anja Peleikis
Shifting Globalities - Changing Headgear: The Indian Muslims between Turban, Hat and Fez, Margrit Pernau
Reclaiming the African City: The World and the Township, Terence Ranger
Part Four: Alternate Globalities
'Alternate' Globalities? On the Cultures and Formats of Transnational Muslim Networks from South Asia, Dietrich Reetz
Globalisation in the Making: Translocal Gendered Spaces in Muslim Societies, Gudrun Lachenmann
About 'Turks' and 'Germans': The Turkish Press in Germany and the Construction of Multiple Memberships, Christoph Schumann
Bibliography
Indices
Index of Personal Names
Index of Place Names
List of Contributors
List of Contributors
List of Maps
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: 'Translocality': An Approach to Connection and Transfer in Regional Studies, Ulrike Freitag/Achim von Oppen
Part One: Marginal Mobilities
Wodaabe Women and the Outside World, Elisabeth Boesen
Chinese Women in the New Migration Process to Europe: Marginal or Main Actors?, Carine Pina-Guerassimoff
Proud Fighters, Blind Men: World War Experiences of Combatants from the Arab East, Katharina Lange
'Following the Hills': Gold Mining Camps as Heterotopias, Katja Werthmann
Part Two: Spaces on the Move
Mapping the Ocean: Visual Representations of the Indian Ocean in the Swahili Military Press during World War II, Katrin Bromber
Regional Attractions: World and Village in Kabylia (Algeria), Judith Scheele
Translocal 'Kinship' Relations in Central African Politics of the 19th Century, Beatrix Heintze
Part Three: Locality and beyond
Autochthony: Local or Global?, Peter Geschiere
Heritage and the Making of (Trans-) local Identities: A Case Study from the Curonian Spit (Lithuania), Anja Peleikis
Shifting Globalities - Changing Headgear: The Indian Muslims between Turban, Hat and Fez, Margrit Pernau
Reclaiming the African City: The World and the Township, Terence Ranger
Part Four: Alternate Globalities
'Alternate' Globalities? On the Cultures and Formats of Transnational Muslim Networks from South Asia, Dietrich Reetz
Globalisation in the Making: Translocal Gendered Spaces in Muslim Societies, Gudrun Lachenmann
About 'Turks' and 'Germans': The Turkish Press in Germany and the Construction of Multiple Memberships, Christoph Schumann
Bibliography
Indices
Index of Personal Names
Index of Place Names
List of Contributors