TY  - BOOK
ED  - Stephan-Emmrich, Manja
ED  - Schröder, Philipp
AB  - "This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates. Illuminating translocality as a productive concept for studying cross‐regional connectivities and networks, this volume is an important contribution to a lively field of academic discourse. Following new directions in Area Studies, the chapters aim to overcome ‘territorial containers’ such as the nation‐state or local community, and instead emphasize the significance of processes of translation and negotiation for understanding how meaningful localities emerge beyond conventional boundaries.  Structured by the four themes ‘crossing boundaries’, ‘travelling ideas’, ‘social and economic movements’ and ‘pious endeavours’, this volume proposes three conceptual approaches to translocality: firstly, to trace how it is embodied, narrated, virtualized or institutionalized within or in reference to physical or imagined localities; secondly, to understand locality as a relational concept rather than a geographically bounded unit; and thirdly, to consider cross‐border traders, travelling students, business people and refugees as examples of non-elite mobilities that provide alternative ways to think about what ‘global’ means today.  Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas will be of interest to students and scholars of the anthropology, history and sociology of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as for those interested in new approaches to Area Studies."
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0114
ID  - OAPEN ID: 648934
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1034633136
KW  - locality
KW  - globalization
KW  - area studies
KW  - caucasus
KW  - cross‐regional networks
KW  - translocality
KW  - central asia
KW  - China
KW  - Dubai
KW  - Kyrgyzstan
KW  - Russia
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Tajiks
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7b5b5150-85ca-413a-a8c0-5b14eff4fa35/648934.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30181
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2018
TI  - Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas : Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus
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