Mobilities, boundaries, and travelling ideas : : rethinking translocality beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus /

Mobilities, boundaries, and travelling ideas : : rethinking translocality beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus / / edited by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder.

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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 practic...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Stephan-Emmrich, Manja,
Schröder, Philipp, 1978-
Light, Nathan
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, England : : Open Book Publishers,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (382 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Introduction : Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus: A Translocal Perspective
  • PART 1 : CROSSING BOUNDARIES: MOBILITIES THEN AND NOW
  • 1. Emigration Within, Across, and Beyond Central Asia in the Early Soviet Period from a Perspective of Translocality
  • 2. Crossing Economic and Cultural Boundaries: Tajik Middlemen in the Translocal Dubai Business Sector
  • PART 2 : TRAVELLING IDEAS: SACRED AND SECULAR
  • 3. Sacred Lineages in Central Asia: Translocality and Identity 4. Explicating Translocal Organization of Everyday Life: Stories from Rural Uzbekistan5. A Sense of Multiple Belonging: Translocal Relations and Narratives of Change Within a Dungan Community
  • PART 3 : MOVEMENTS FROM BELOW: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
  • 6. 'New History' as a Translocal Field
  • 7. Informal Trade and Globalization in the Caucasus and Post-Soviet Eurasia
  • 8. The Economics of Translocality
  • Epistemographic Observations from Fieldwork In( -Between) Russia, China, and Kyrgyzstan
  • PART 4 : PIOUS ENDEAVOURS: NEAR AND FAR
  • 9. iPhones, Emotions, Mediations: Tracing Translocality in the Pious Endeavours of Tajik Migrants in the United Arab Emirates10. Translocality and the Folding of Post-Soviet Urban Space in Bishkek: Hijrah from 'Botanika' to 'Botanicheskii Jamaat'
  • Afterword: On Transitive Concepts and Local Imaginations
  • Studying Mobilities from a Translocal Perspective
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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