Description
Book Synopsis Studies of globalization tend to foreground movements, mobilities or flows, while structures that remain stable and unchanged are often ignored. This volume foregrounds the latter. Discarding the term “globalization” for analytic purposes, this volume suggests that the significance of globalizing processes is best understood as an experiential, imaginary and epistemological dimension in people’s lives. The authors explore how meaningful relations are made when the “socially local is not necessarily the geographically near” and how connections are made and unmade that reach beyond the specificity of time and place. Finally, this volume is about the ways knowledge and received wisdom are challenged and recast through processes of re-scaling, and how the understanding of locality and identity are transformed as a result.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Preface
by Bruce Kapferer
List of figures
Chapter 1. Introduction
Marianne E. Lien and Marit Melhuus
Chapter 2. Trust and reciprocity in Transnational flows
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Chapter 3. Imagined kin, place and community: Some paradoxes in the transnational movement of children in adoption
Signe Howell
Chapter 4. Procreative imaginations. When experts disagree on the meanings of kinship
Marit Melhuus
Chapter 5. Family tracings. Global gazes of Norwegian-American genealogies
Sarah Lund
Chapter 6. The understanding of migration and the discourse of nationalism. Dominicans in New York City
Christian Krohn-Hansen
Chapter 7. Weeding Tasmanian bush. Biomigration and landscape imagery
Marianne E. Lien
Chapter 8. Epochs of scale-making in Papua
Eric Hirsch
Chapter 9. Standardised uniqueness. Rearticulating identiy in a Norwegian town
Erik Henningsen
Chapter 10. Arresting mobility or locating expertise: ‘Globalisation’ and the ‘knowledge society’
Penny Harvey
Notes on contributors
Index
