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 p...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 11 janvier 2019
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-1658-0
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2018
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-333-9
Nombre de pages : 371
Philipp Schröder et Manja Stephan-Emmrich
PrefaceNathan Light
ForewordManja Stephan-Emmrich et Philipp Schröder
IntroductionMobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus: A Translocal Perspective
Part 1. Crossing Boundaries: Mobilities Then and Now
Kamoludin Abdullaev
1. Emigration Within, Across, and Beyond Central Asia in the Early Soviet Period from a Perspective of TranslocalityAbdullah Mirzoev et Manja Stephan-Emmrich
2. Crossing Economic and Cultural Boundaries: Tajik Middlemen in the Translocal Dubai Business SectorPart 2. Travelling Ideas: Sacred and Secular
Henryk Alff
5. A Sense of Multiple Belonging: Translocal Relations and Narratives of Change Within a Dungan CommunityPart 3. Movements from Below: Economic and Social
Svetlana Jacquesson
6. ‘New History’ as a Translocal FieldPhilipp Schröder
8. The Economics of Translocality – Epistemographic Observations from Fieldwork In(-Between) Russia, China, and KyrgyzstanPart 4. Pious Endeavours: Near and Far
Manja Stephan-Emmrich
9. iPhones, Emotions, Mediations: Tracing Translocality in the Pious Endeavours of Tajik Migrants in the United Arab EmiratesEmil Nasritdinov
10. Translocality and the Folding of Post-Soviet Urban Space in Bishkek: Hijrah from ‘Botanika’ to ‘Botanicheskii Jamaat’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.
Post-doctoral scholar and lecturer at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). His current research project is entitled ‘The “China-Business” — An Ethnography of Kyrgyz Traders and their Translocal Livelihoods in-between “Home”, China, and Russia'. He has published on the topics of identity and integration, urban spaces and mobilities, youth cultures and entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on Kyrgyzstan.
Junior Professor of Islam in Asian and African Societies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). In her current anthropological book project, she is investigating the complex entanglements of translocal Islamic education networks, Tajik youth's work experiences, and reform-minded endeavours in Tajikistan, the Gulf, and the wider Middle East. She has published several articles and book chapters on Islamic lifestyles, youth and education, migration and mobility, and Muslim business networks in Dubai.
Volkswagen Foundation
Référence du projet : Az. 86870
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