Living Translocality
Living Translocality
Space, Culture and Economy in Contemporary Swahili Trade
Published by Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012
Overview
Abstract
Mobility not only challenges the everyday lives of millions of people, it also challenges scientific understandings of society, culture and space. Based on long-term mobile ethnographic research connecting Zanzibar, the Tanzanian mainland, Mombasa, Dubai and London, this volume takes up this challenge by exploring the translocal space emerging around contemporary Swahili trade. Examining translocality as a lived experience, the book succeeds in refining often overly abstract notions of mobile settings and relational space.
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Details
Living Translocality
Franz Steiner Verlag
262 Pages
ISBN 978-3-515-10094-6 (Print)
ISBN 978-3-515-10165-3 (eBook)
Copyright year: 2012
First published: 11.09.2012
Table of contents
Content (16 Chapter)
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CONTENTS
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Chapter
LIST OF FIGURES
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Chapter
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Chapter
INTRODUCTION: MOBILITY AND THE GEOGRAPHIES OF SPACE
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Chapter
ARRANGEMENTS
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Chapter
MOVEMENTS
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FINDING ONE’S WAY IN(TO) TRANSLOCAL CONNECTIONS: A TRADE JOURNEY THROUGH THE TANZANIAN HINTERLAND
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LIVING (UP TO) THE TRANSLOCAL IMAGINATION: ON AND IN-BETWEEN BUSINESS TRIPS TO DUBAI
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STICKING (TO) TRADING CONNECTIONS: OBJECT GEOGRAPHIES THROUGH THE HANDS OF WANNABE TRADERS
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SEARCHING HOME IN A TRANSLOCAL SPACE: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF TRANSLOCAL CULTURAL PRACTICES
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ENMESHMENTS
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REFERENCES