Holding Worlds Together
Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging
Author: Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Marit Melhuus Series: Berghahn
Discarding the term "globalization" for analytic purposes, this book suggests that the significance of globalizing processes is best understood as an experiential, imaginary and epistemological dimension in people's lives. It explores how meaningful relations and connections are made and unmade that reach beyond the specificity of time and place.
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Discarding the term "globalization" for analytic purposes, this book suggests that the significance of globalizing processes is best understood as an experiential, imaginary and epistemological dimension in people's lives. It explores how meaningful relations and connections are made and unmade that reach beyond the specificity of time and place.
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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” and how connections are made and unmade that reach beyond the specificity of time and place. Finally, this volume is about the ways knowledge and received wisdom are challenged and recast through processes of re-scaling, and how the understanding of locality and identity are transformed as a result.
About the Author
Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and has done research on food, consumption, economic anthropology, aquaculture and biomigration. Publications include Marketing and Modernity (1997) and the co-edited volume The Politics of Food (2004). She is head of the research program “Transnational Flows of Concepts and Substances” (Norwegian Research Council).
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" and how connections are made and unmade that reach beyond the specificity of time and place. Finally, this volume is about the ways knowledge and received wisdom are challenged and recast through processes of re-scaling, and how the understanding of locality and identity are transformed as a result.
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