Translocality: The Study of Globalising Processes from a Southern Perspective (Studies in Global Social History, 4) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004181164 ISBN 13: 9789004181168

Publisher: Brill, 2010

Synopsis

This volume discusses globalising processes from the perspective of the humanities and social sciences. It focuses on the ‘global south’, notably the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Densely researched case studies examine a variety of approaches for their potential to understand connecting processes on different scales. The studies seek to overcome the main traps of the ‘globalisation’ paradigm, such as its occidental bias, its notion of linear expansion, its simplifying dichotomy between ‘local’ and ‘global’, and an often-found lack of historical depth. They elaborate the asymmetries, mobilities, opportunities and barriers involved in globalising processes. Their new perspective on these processes is captured by the concept of ‘translocality’, which aims at integrating a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches from different disciplines.

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About the Author

Ulrike Freitag, Ph.D. (1991) in History (Freiburg), is Director of Zentrum Moderner Orient and Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published Geschichtsschreibung in Syrien (1991) and Indian Ocean Migrants and the Reform of Hadhramaut (2003). Her current interests include urban social history and global history.

Achim von Oppen, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology (Berlin), is Professor of African History at Universität Bayreuth and former Deputy Director of Zentrum Moderner Orient. He has worked and published widely on social history and constructions of space in Central and East Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004181164
• ISBN 13: 9789004181168
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 472
• Editor: Freitag Ulrike, Von Oppen Achim