Overview

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.

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Author:   Marianne Elisabeth Lien ,  Marit Melhuus
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9781845452506

ISBN 10:   184545250
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 June 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and has done research on food, consumption, economic anthropology, aquaculture and biomigration. Publications include Marketing and Modernity (1997) and the co-edited volume The Politics of Food (2004). She is head of the research program “Transnational Flows of Concepts and Substances” (Norwegian Research Council).

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