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Many popular and social science interpretations of conflicts around the world explicitly or implicitly assume that 'the local' and 'the global' are clearly distinct realms. This is most clearly brought out in phrases about 'local responses' to 'global change'. This book addresses a wealth of cases from around the world that illustrate how local tensions, frictions and open conflicts are not only influenced by outside actors, but how local parties proactively seek to insert their interests in global discourses, if only to strengthen their legitimacy. This compilation covers issues ranging from religious contentions, ethical controversies, ethnic clashes, and environmental issues in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe. Geo-political interference from outside players, material and immaterial support from diasporas, international media articulation of the conflict's stakes, and international religious proselytising, all co-constitute local disputes. This book shows how local strife is often situated in and shaped by broader political and other contexts. This book is meant for all scholars and students interested in the real and tangible effects of globalisation processes, in particular for anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists and scholars interested in international dimensions of environmental issues, religion, ethnicity and gender.

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This rich and focused book not only shows how politics, even at the most local level, interacts with global forces through transnational connections, but also that these very political discourses retain a clear local dimension. The politics of transnationalism is dialectical, dual, dynamic and -- as the book shows -- an immensely fruitful field for comparative research. - Thomas Hylland Eriksen A welcome addition to recent redefinitions of the boundaries and scales of politics. These authors show perceptively and convincingly how local and global interests, whether it's about religion, the environment, or ethnicity and race, are intricately linked. --Prof. dr. Peggy Levit, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College & Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University (Co-Director)

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Ton Salman studied philosophy and anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and did his Ph.D. (1993) at the Centre for Study and Documentation of Latin America (CEDLA) in Amsterdam. Marja de Theije is associate professor social and cultural anthropology at the VU University Amsterdam and senior researcher at CEDLA. She received her doctoral degree from Utrecht University (Netherlands) and has worked also at the Post Graduate Program in Anthropology of the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, in Recife (Brazil). Since 2006 her research focuses on small-scale gold mining in Suriname and other Amazonian countries.

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