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This contribution is summarized through two basic problems:1) The reification of ideas and objects (Said, 1983) in the context of media and cultural studies – mainly when referring to their internationalizing process – requires reflecting on the relations between colonialities of power and ­colonialities of knowledge (Mignolo, 2003).2) The resignification and extension of some basic concepts, such as culture, ­politics and communication, along with the incorporation of other ­fundamental approaches and ideas from a critical cognitive perspective is not only a ­necessity, but also the political route one should follow in our contemporary complex technological societies.Out of disharmony and conflict, other knowledges must be produced within the game of power. From this perspective, this contribution is also a reflection about the idea that cognitive capitalism has taken us to a kind of a cognitive crisis. Thus, it is suggested that thinking from transtemporalities and translocalities is an aesthetic/political form via which to criticize and think about the multiplicity of spaces within the processes of internationalizing media and cultural studies.

Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China's reform era development within the concept of translocality. These essays focus simultaneously on mobilities and localities, drawing our attention to the multiplying forms of mobility in China, whilst retaining the importance of localities in people's lives

1. Introduction -- 2. Chinese Migrations in a Global Context -- 3. Oral Accounts of Chinese Migrations to Italy: A History of Translocality -- 4. Problematizing Chinatown -- 5. Roman Theater: Italians verses 'Others' -- 6. Historical "Fact Checking": Chronicles and Legacies of the Esquiline -- 7. Once Upon A Time in China: Reverberations of Identities -- 8. Epilogue: Toward a Glocal Oral History.

Artist collectives emerge as driving forces in the art field. They activate new spaces as locales of artistic practice and display. They shape emerging formats, from neighborhood arts projects to largescale biennials. In their practice, the artists challenge established notions of art as well as hegemonic circumscriptions of locality. This book results from a long-term engagement with artists in Nepal and Bangladesh and follows an actor-centered approach to unravel notions of contemporaneity and collectivity. Its focus on collaborative art practices together with its multi-scalar and translocal perspective urges us to rethink the use of terms such as the city, the region or the global that often transport hierarchies.
oapen abstract other languages - Künstler*innenkollektive entwickeln sich zu einer treibenden Kraft im Kunstfeld. Sie aktivieren neue Räume für künstlerische Praxis und Präsentation. Sie gestalten neu aufkommende Formate, von Kunstprojekten in der Nachbarschaft bis hin zu großangelegten Biennalen. In ihrer Praxis hinterfragen die Kunstschaffenden etablierte Kunstbegriffe sowie hegemoniale Umschreibungen von Lokalität.
Dieses Buch ist das Ergebnis einer langjährigen Arbeit mit zeitgenössischen Kunstschaffenden in Nepal und Bangladesch. Es verfolgt einen akteurszentrierten Ansatz, um die Begriffe contemporaneity und collectivity zu entschlüsseln. Sein Fokus auf kollaborative Kunstpraktiken in Verbindung mit einer multiskalaren und translokalen Perspektive fordert uns dazu auf, die Verwendung von häufig Hierarchien transportierenden Begriffen wie Stadt, Region oder Globalität zu überdenken.

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More than half of the world's children grow up in Asia, a continent currently undergoing rapid economic and social change. Yet the voices of young people in Asian countries have received far too little attention. Providing a much-needed contribution to the field of childhood studies, The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies sets a new agenda in a research landscape that has so far lacked an overarching conceptual framework for illuminating Asian childhoods.

Adopting a systematic and comprehensive approach, this pioneering handbook profiles Asian childhoods and youth embedded within their distinctive families and societies as well as in more universal contexts. Locating young people in a variety of social structures, chapters highlight and interrogate strong intergenerational obligations across Asian cultures, even as Asian societies undergo rapid economic change, political transformation, and mass migration.

Prioritising Asian youth's perspectives and contributions and revising established analytical frameworks of research,The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global conditions and private and public actors in Asian countries.

This chapter focuses on questions surrounding universities' societal responsibility in connection to language use, going beyond the national language(s) versus English dichotomy. As a result of university internationalisation and increased migration, both student and faculty populations at Nordic universities have diversified. Nordic universities are currently facing multiple challenges: to maintain academic autonomy and freedom of thought, to protect democratic ideals, to prove the validity of scientific findings, and to conduct most of their activities with the support of digital media. Drawing on findings from recent research conducted in Sweden and Finland and the latest Nordic language policy document (Gregersen et al. 2018), our chapter critically discusses how researchers and students with transnational trajectories perceive their language use. In particular, we consider the role of English vis-à-vis the national language(s) and other languages for purposes of research outreach and widening participation. We argue that there is a mismatch between university policies assuming that societal responsibility concerning language use is largely limited to local national and (to a lesser extent) minority languages, and the translocal experience of university stakeholders who often deal with a range of linguistic resources on a daily basis. ; Peer reviewed

During the late nineteenth century, Italian immigrant settlement in Wales took the form of chain and clustered migration, based on origin-centred networks of extended family members. The original migrants' reliance on transnational family support networks endured and evolved through descendant generations. Family formation and the progression of lifecycle care exchanges served as key drivers of transnationalism between Wales and Italy. Many families established catering businesses in Wales that relied on staff recruitment from kin in Italy. Migrants' heritage and affective anchorage to Italy were maintained through 'circular' mobility premised on endogamy and shared language. In recent decades, despite a decline in endogamous marriage, transnational family interaction has continued on the basis of the ease of European Union cross-border mobility. Changing modes and motives for cyclical and return migration encompass new forms of marriage, professional and retirement migration. Based on etnographic research with three generations of Italian migrants in Wales, this article explores the relation between family social networks and local attachment in supporting transnational practices, positive integration and heritage maintainance, tracing the cultural and social change in the generational process of migration.

Recent estimates put the global number of mobile phone subscriptions close to the number of humans currently alive on Earth; at the same time, the global number of both domestic and international migrants is approaching the one billion mark. This article addresses the linkages between these two processes: Although migrants and mobile populations always had ties to their places of origin, the recent boom in access to affordable communication - specifically in the form of mobile phones - has fundamentally changed the way in which millions of migrants "live" translocality. These changes are traced in this article in the translocal social constellations of ruralto-urban migrants in Bangladesh. Translocality is conceptualized through a theoretical framework of strong structuration theory, with the key elements herein being networks, places, and resources. Using the two examples of remittances and the chatroom, it is shown how changing communication practices are now shaping and rearranging the country's translocal structures. These structural changes encompass social and spatial reconfigurations of translocal networks, shifts in resource endowment, and shifts of norms and expectations regarding social and economic interactions and transactions. (Asien/GIGA)

Frontmatter -- On the Series -- Contents -- 1 Locating the Global: Articulations, Encounters, and Interactions -- 2 A Forgotten Emporium: Commercial Aspirations and Transnational Mercantile Networks in Seventeenth- Century Glückstadt -- 3 Global Materials, Contact Zones, and Imitation: The Making of Metal Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Sweden -- 4 Coffee and Coffee Surrogates in Sweden: A Local, Global, and Material History -- 5 Circulating Heterodox Medicine: Globalizing and Localizing Naturopathy in Interwar Finland -- 6 Stocktaking at Christiansborg: Metals and Slaves in the Danish Atlantic Trade at the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 7 Copper on the Move: A Commodity Chain between Sweden and France, 1720–1790 -- 8 Encountering Mid-Eighteenth Century Morocco from Below: Slavery, Race, and Religion in two Scandinavian Captivity Narratives -- 9 Eurafrican Mobility and Encounters with Race, ca. 1880–1920 -- 10 Muslim Scholars Living in Three Worlds: West African Muslims and the Imposition of the European Colonial Order -- 11 Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns -- 12 A Neutral Place? Anti-Colonialism, Peace, and Revolution in Stockholm, 1917 -- 13 Ethiopia in Swedish Press in the Run-up to the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935/36 -- 14 Cartographic Histories of the Western Territorialization of Northern Australia, 1840s–1900s: Global Circuits of Knowledge and the Mapmakers' Craft -- 15 National History and Big History: Väinö Auer, the Finnish Nationalist and the Global Environmentalist -- 16 Global Hubs on the Move: Nineteenth- Century World's Fairs as Spaces of Imagining the World -- 17 Visualizing Sweden at the 1937 World Fair in Paris -- 18 National Museums and the Wider World: The Exclusion of Non-Western Collections at the National Museum of Finland -- 19 A Contested Global Memory Space: The Establishment of the National Museum of Ghana -- List of Contributors -- Index

Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Guyanese Hinduism and the Study of Clothing: An Introduction -- Socio-historical Context and Religious Groups in Guyana -- Guyanese Hindu Traditions -- Guyanese Transnationalism and the Concept of Translocality -- Methodology -- The Material Culture of Clothing and Dress -- Clothing, Closeness, and Migration -- Outline of the Book -- Resemblance, Imitation, and Consumption -- Intimacy, Touch, and Exchange -- References -- Chapter 2: Negotiating 'Indianness' Through Indian Wear -- Defining 'Indian Wear'

Prologue: Soqotra as a Crucible of Exogenous Mediations -- Chapter 1: Mediated Urbanization: Ḥadiboh as an Emergent Translocality -- Part 1: Cultural Modernization: National Integration Processes -- Chapter 2: Linguistic Dilemmas: Communal Vernacular in Transition -- Chapter 3: Consumption as Alienation: Diffusion of the National Pastime -- Chapter 4: Religious Re-Conversion: Mediations of Local Islamic Practices.-Chapter 5: Economic Reconfiguration: Emergent Social Differentiation -- Part 2: Environmental Annexation: Global Governance of Local Conservation -- Chapter 6: Trojan Environmentalism: Ecological Gentrification of an Island Community -- Chapter 7: "Saving Soqotra": Biography of a Conservation & Development Experiment -- Epilogue: A Community in Permanent Transition -- Bibliography.

Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Map, Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- "All-under-Heaven is a Collection of Prefectures and Counties" -- Translocality as a Historically Specific Process -- Translocal Practices and the Re-ordering of Places -- Chapter 1 -- The Identity of Huizhou and the Reach of Its Merchants -- Huizhou in the Literati Imagination: Locality as a Microcosm of the Realm -- Merchants from Huizhou: Trade and Geographical Reach -- Chapter 2 -- Sojourning in Translocal Perspective: Local Encounters and Place-Based Identity -- Place-Name Transfer and Local Encounter -- Managing Local Difference: Home and Host Places in the Context of Sojourning -- Public Participation and Place-based Identity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 -- "The Public" for Sojourners: Xiangyi and the Translocal Network of Public Participation -- The Geographical Dimension of Public Participation -- A Granary for the Home Place -- Restoring the Ziyang Academy: An Old Institution in a New Context -- Xiangyi Obligations beyond the Native Place -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 -- Translocal Lineage and the Romance of Homeland Attachment -- Studies of Chinese Lineage: Local and Translocal -- The Evolvement of Translocal Lineage Practice: The Pans of Suzhou -- Demarcation and Inclusion: The Magic of Distance in the Genealogy of 1854 -- Obligation and Opportunity: A Tale of Two Places -- The Romance of Home Place Attachments and Contested Native-place Identity -- Other Cases of Translocal Lineage Practice -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- The Emergence of Multi-Place Household Registration: Translocality, the State, and Local Communities -- The Early Ming Household Registration System and Human-Place Relations -- State and Society in Late Ming Household Registration Reforms -- The Early Qing Completion of the Reforms -- Household Registration and Local Community in the Qing.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Part 1. Setting the Stage -- 1. The Politics of Transnational Citizenship -- 2. Reconstructing the Migrant in Mexican State-Policy Discourse -- PART 2. The Politics of Transnational Community Development -- 3. The Regional State and the Politics of Translocality -- 4. The Social Construction of "Migrant-Led Productive Investment" -- Part 3. El Migrante as Transnational Citizen -- 5. Transnational Electoral Politics: The Multiple Coronations of the "Tomato King" -- 6. Institutionalizing New Spaces for Migrant Political Agency: Votary Ser Votado in Mexico -- Part 4. The Two Faces of Transnational Citizenship -- 7. The Second Face of Transnational Citizenship: Migrant Activists Recross the Border -- 8. The Boundaries of Citizenship: Transnational Power Revisited -- Appendix Transnational Ethnography: Methods, Fieldwork, and Subjects -- References -- Index

Meaning and international relations: some thoughts / Andrew Williams -- Surfing the Zeitgeist / Christopher Coker -- The delocalisation of meaning / Zaki Laïdi -- Meaning and social transformations: ideology in a post-ideological age / Gerard Delanty -- Eurosomnia: Europe's 'spiritual vitality' and the debate on the European idea / Stefan Elbe -- Whose meaning(s)?!: a feminist perspective on the crisis of meaning in international relations / Annick T.R. Wibben -- The search for meaning in global conjunctions: from ethnographic truth to ethnopolitical agency / Tarja Väyrynen -- When meaning travels: Muslim translocality and the politics of 'authenticity' / Peter Mandaville -- Messianic moments and the religious (re)turn in international relations / Andrea den Boer -- Reliving the Boxer Uprising, or, The restricted meaning of civilisation / Stephen Chan -- On the danger of premature conclusion(s) / Peter Mandaville

Internal labour migration from rural areas to urban centres has been and remains one of the dominant patterns of migration in South Africa. Based on data from ethnographic field research, this paper explores the mobility patterns and translocal relations of miners in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. By considering the tension between mobility and locality in a historical and political perspective, the concept of translocality helps to explain why miners try to expand their action space and, at the same time, why they are embedded in certain places. Thus, a translocal perspective enhances the interpretation of the spatio-temporal transformations in South Africa's mining communities and beyond, as it sheds light on the agency of mine workers, superseding merely structuralist explanations.