Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus - cover image

Copyright

Manja Stephan-Emmrich; Philipp Schröder; Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapter’s authors.

Published On

2018-04-17

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-333-9
Hardback978-1-78374-334-6
PDF978-1-78374-335-3
HTML978-1-80064-533-2
XML978-1-78374-499-2
EPUB978-1-78374-336-0
MOBI978-1-78374-337-7

Language

  • English

Print Length

380 pages (vi + 374)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 20 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.79" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 22 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.88" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1180g (41.62oz)
Hardback1568g (55.31oz)

Media

Illustrations38

OCLC Number

1105430983

LCCN

2019452617

BIC

  • JHMC
  • 1FC
  • JH
  • JPS
  • RGCP

BISAC

  • SOC002010
  • SOC015000

LCC

  • JV6121

Keywords

  • translocality
  • Central Asia
  • Caucasus
  • locality
  • globalization
  • cross‐regional networks
  • Area Studies

Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas

Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus

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.

Reviews

It is precisely how the editors use the idea of translocality when engaging with the issues of identity, the state, informal economies, Islam, new technologies, and so on, that allows the reader to appreciate the volume’s theoretical contribution.

Elena Borisova, University of Manchester

"Stephan-Emmrich, Manja & Philipp Schröder (eds). Mobilities, boundaries, and travelling ideas: rethinking translocality beyond central Asia and the Caucasus". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1359-0987), vol. 26, no. 4, 2020. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.13393

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Contents

  • Svetlana Jacquesson

Preface

(pp. 1–4)
  • Manja Stephan-Emmrich
  • Philipp Schröder

Foreword

(pp. 5–26)
  • Nathan Light

Contributors

Manja Stephan-Emmrich

(editor)
Junior Professor of Islam in Asian and African Societies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin