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Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging

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Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging - Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (Editor), and Melhuus, Marit (Editor)
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Studies of globalization tend to foreground movements, mobilities or flows, while structures that remain stable and unchanged are often ignored. This volume foregrounds the latter. Discarding the term "globalization" for analytic purposes, this volume suggests that the significance of globalizing processes is best understood as an experiential, imaginary and epistemological dimension in people's lives. The authors explore how meaningful relations are made when the "socially local is not necessarily the geographically near" ...

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Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging 2007, Berghahn Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781845452506

Hardcover