ISBN:
978-1-78374-333-9
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978-1-78374-334-6
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978-1-78374-335-3 /PDF
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978-1-78374-336-0 /ePub
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978-1-78374-337-7 /mobi
Language:
English
Pages:
371 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Keywords:
Zentral-Asien Kaukasus
;
Usbekistan
;
Eurasien
;
Russland
;
Sowjet-Union, ehemalige
;
China
;
Kirgisien
;
Tadschikistan
;
Kasachstan
;
Turkestan
;
Türkei
;
Migration
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Transport, Verkehr
;
Globalisierung
;
Markt
;
Islam
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Handelsbeziehung
;
Handelsroute
;
Wanderarbeiter
;
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
;
Mobilität
;
Handy
;
Wasserwirtschaft
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Foreword / Nathan Light -- Introduction: Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus: A Translocal Perspective. Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder -- Part 1: Crossing Boundaries: Mobilities Then and Now -- Part 2: Travelling Ideas: Sacred and Secular -- Part 3: Movements from Below: Economic and Social -- Part 4: Pious Endeavours: Near and Far -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Note:
Enthält ein Vor- und Nachwort sowie 10 Beiträge; "we started our research projekt Translocal Goods - Education, Work, and Commodities beween Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, China, and the Arab Emirates [...] the program Between Europe and the Orient - a Focus on Research and Higher Education in/on Central Asia and the Caucasus. Until 2017, the funding provided by the Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung) [...] key event was a workshop held in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) in April 2015" (Preface)
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0114
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https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/603/
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https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0114
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https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/603/
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https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0114
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https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/603/
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https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0114
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https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/603/
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