Suchergebnisse

"Der Beitrag fragt danach, wie Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene in postsowjetischen Ländern ihre biographischen Pläne entwerfen und realisieren können. Spannungsreich wird das, wenn sie sich an Idealen von individueller Freiheit orientieren oder internationale Karrieren anstreben. Solche Pläne, die durch Bildungsmigration Auftrieb erhalten, müssen gegen die Barrieren einer generationalen Ordnung verhandelt werden, die von der jungen Generation Gehorsam und Leistungen der Pflege/Unterstützung verlangt. Der Beitrag entwirft einen konzeptuellen Rahmen zur Erfassung solcher Verhandlungen und spielt ihn am Beispiel von zwei Bildungsmigrant/-innen aus Kirgisistan und Aserbaidschan durch." (Autorenreferat)

Agile Methoden wie Scrum können als Versuch einer räumlichen Teamzentrierung interpretiert werden, bei der - so unsere Ausgangsbeobachtung - die Lokalität des Teams als besonderer Status selbstorganisierter Arbeit ausgewiesen wird. Demgegenüber gibt es in der Praxis aufgrund dynamischer Organisation der Wertschöpfung zunehmend Ansätze zur Translokalisierung agil arbeitender Teams. Wir rücken daher die Frage, inwiefern agile Projektarbeit unter Bedingungen translokaler Organisation praktiziert wird, in den Mittelpunkt unseres Beitrags. Anhand von zwei Fallstudien in einem Großkonzern und einem KMU aus der Softwareentwicklung vergleichen wir die Unterschiede konkreter Projektarbeit unter lokalen und translokalen Bedingungen und zeigen die 'prekäre Selbstorganisation' agiler Teams auf. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass durch die Translokalisierung der Arbeit die Prozess- und Gegenstandsbezogenheit als zentraler Bestandteil agiler Selbstorganisation prekär werden. In den Unternehmen entwickeln sich im Angesicht dieser Herausforderungen analoge wie digitale Strategien, welche als Versuche zur Substitution von Lokalität betrachtet werden können.

Toward the end of the 60s musical groups with origins in the corralero sound from the Colombian Caribbean coast made several tours in Mexico. Their influence led to the emergence of local groups in the Afro-descendant coastal strip of Costa Chica in southern Mexico. One of these groups, Mar Azul, collaborated to forge the so-called merequetengue, a music genre that served as an identity vehicle and a mixture of local aesthetics, evidencing glocal processes and regional locality. Later on, the importance this group acquired led to translocal processes, as it became a substantial part of the musical life of the migrant coastal population, both in Mexico City and in several states of the USA. This paper analyzes these processes –which show South-South relations between Afro-descendant rural populations- making use of the notions of glocality, regional locality, and musical translocality.

Employing insights from contemporary postcolonial, decolonial, and indigenous theory, this article argues that home, identity, and the politics of naming "here" are emerging as complex "mobile localities" with implications for how a globalizing world is understood. The Cartesian reasoning that enabled Eurocentric perspectives to lay sole claim to universality is now being challenged by decolonizing views that understand locality through a framework more closely attuned to what Boaventura Sousa de Santos calls "an ecology of knowledges." To hold to a single definition in a globalizing world increasingly marks a failure of imagination: a "monoculture of the mind" in a multicultural world. For many, locality may now be a form of translocality, in which alternative understandings of space and time co‐exist, sometimes only concurrently, and sometimes mingling to form emergent understandings. The paper interprets two contemporary Canadian texts involved in renegotiating urban civic space‐‐Cree poet Marvin Francis's City Treaty: A Long Poem and Trinidadian‐Canadian Dionne Brand's What We All Long For: A Novel –with the aim of providing a revised model for understanding locality in a globalizing world. Revisions of the local such as those offered by Brand and Francis reveal the potential for understanding locality as a living, moving, metamorphizing space rather than a determinant place of origin.

Intro -- Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean: Swahili Speaking Networks on the Move -- Copyright -- Contents -- Transliteration, Orthography and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Translocal Relations across the Indian Ocean: An Introduction -- Part 1: Translocality in the Past -- 1 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brava: A Swahili Cultural Enclave in a Somali Context -- 2 Sufism, Salafism, and the Discursive Tradition of Religious Poetry in Brava -- 3 Translocal Links and Women Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Somalia -- Part 2: Vectors (Carriers) of Translocality -- 4 Sasa, pote, majeshi yetu duniani: Swahili Poetry and the Translocal Moment of World War II -- 5 Translocality, Texts and Discourses: Ritual Transformations of Islamic Sacrifices in Tanzania -- Part 3: Reflections (Representations) of Translocal Connections -- 6 Local Ideas of Fashion and Translocal Connections: A View from Upcountry Tanganyika -- 7 Translocal Interconnections within the Swahili Spirit World: The Role of Pemba and the Comoro Islands / Madagascar -- Part 4: Experiencing Translocality: Translocality from the Bottom - Translocality in Daily Experience -- 8 Translocal Experiences and Intersecting Mobilities: Reflections on Motility and Actual and Imagined Movability in Contemporary Zanzibar -- 9 Skype, Facebook, and Chat Rooms: New Modes of Expression and Changing Gender Relations among Swahili Youth at Home and Abroad -- 10 Integration and Identity of Swahili Speakers in England: Case Study of Swahili Women -- 11 Swahili Elites and the Concept of Long-Distance Nationalism within the Diaspora -- Index

This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together interlinked case-studies that analyse various temporal and spatial dimensions of the global in the local and the interactions between the local and the global.

Translocal spaces are created out of the process of globalization whereby interventions such as electronic media and migration radically change social relations and breakdown the isomorphism of space, place, and culture [1]. This approach is useful in examining the controversy surrounding the mustang. This paper explores how different social constructions influence the management of mustangs as they move between the local and national level. At each cultural level, political, economic, and environmental issues converge encouraging the emphasis of some cultural constructions over others. These socially constructed images give insight into what the mustang means to a post-industrial culture and it may simultaneously contribute to the animal's eventual demise.

Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China's reform era development within the concept of translocality. A key element of spatial change in today's China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labour migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs, and many others. But translocality doesn't just mean people. It is crucially constituted by the circulation of capital, ideas, images, goods, styles, services, and disease to name but a few. With contributions from well-respected China specialists, the essays focus simultaneously on mob.

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.

This study is a cultural interpretivist investigation of the system of meanings that shapes the use of the term "communication" (kommunikáció) in Hungarian citizens' assessments of political communication. Using a combination of the diary-interview method and semantic analysis of mediated texts, I find that Hungarian citizens distinguish good communication from bad using a set of local standards (veracity, morality, quality, effectiveness, and effects on society). I also find that citizens' communication ideal and the cultural premises animating that ideal are closely aligned with the tenets of translocal communication culture, and I argue that these meanings serve as evidence of the vernacular globalization of that culture. I also discuss how citizens' metadiscourse becomes a unique site for the local articulation of translocal meanings.

Translocality as originally used by Arjun Appadurai was an evocative concept that appealed immediately to anthropologists and others who study global-local connections. Its use has been widely adopted in religious studies, music studies, migration studies and food studies, but it has continued to be rather undefined, which makes it difficult to apply to local data. Here, from the study of local food and gastronomy in the Mexican state of Yucatán, I investigate how translocality can help us look at the global in the local and the local in the global. I propose that when it comes to studying food and gastronomy in the Yucatán, translocality can help us understand the ways in which industrialization, which became both a production model and a way of life in the United States and Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, rapidly extended to food everywhere, and Yucatecans fondly took to the consumption of industrially produced and processed foods, incorporating them into the local gastronomy. The results, in terms of taste, have been extensive but are not particular to the Yucatán, since food and gastronomy everywhere have been impacted in similar ways. However, when we analyze the changes in local dishes and preparations, we can see how ubiquitous industrialized food has become and how it has affected the particular configurations of ingredients in Yucatecan cuisine.

Introduction -- Time for a Rethink -- Translocal Livelihoods – New Perspectives on Livelihood Research -- Vulnerability and Translocality: Why Livelihoods become Translocal -- Translocal Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Influence of Translocal Livelihoods on Aspects of Rural Structural Transformation -- Conclusion