Translocality

by Freitag, Ulrike; Von Oppen, Achim

• ISBN13: 9789004181168
• ISBN10: 9004181164
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-31
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ulrike Freitag, Ph.D. (1991) in History (Freiburg), is Director of Zentrum Moderner Orient and Professor-of Islamic Studies, at Freie Universitt Berlin. She has published Geschichisschreibung 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 Universitt Bayr'euth 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
List of Maps	p. xvii
Note on Transliteration	p. xix
Introduction: 'Translocality': An Approach to Connection and Transfer in Area Studies	p. 1
Marginal Mobilities
Wodaabe Women and the Outside World	p. 25
Chinese Women in the New Migration Process to Europe: Marginal or Main Actors?	p. 55
Proud Fighters, Blind Men: World War Experiences of Combatants from the Arab East	p. 83
'Following the Hills': Gold Mining Camps as Heterotopias	p. 111
Spaces On The Move
Mapping the Ocean: Visual Representations of the Indian Ocean in the Swahili Military Press during World War II	p. 135
Regional Attractions: World and Village in Kabylia (Algeria)	p. 159
Translocal 'Kinship' Relations in Central African Politics of the 19th Century	p. 179
Locality And Beyond
Autochthony: Local or Global?	p. 207
Heritage and the Making of (Trans-)local Identities: A Case Study from the Curonian Spit (Lithuania)	p. 229
Shifting Globalises Changing Headgear: The Indian Muslims between Turban, Hat and Fez	p. 249
Reclaiming the African City: The World and the Township	p. 269
Alternate Globalities
'Alternate' Globalities? On the Cultures and Formats of Transnational Muslim Networks from South Asia	p. 293.
Globalisation in the Making: Translocal Gendered Spaces in Muslim Societies	p. 335
About 'Turks' and 'Germans': The Turkish Press in Germany and the Construction of Multiple Memberships	p. 369
Bibliography	p. 401
Indices	p. 441
Index of Personal Names	p. 441
Index of Place Names	p. 444
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