Holding Worlds Together Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging [Hardcover]

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 peoples 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.

Acknowledgements

Preface
byBruce Kapferer

List of figures

Chapter 1.Introduction
Marianne E. LienandMarit Melhuus

Chapter 2.Trust and reciprocity in Transnational flows
Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Chapter 3.Imagined kin, place and community: Some paradoxes in the transnational movement of children in adoption
Signe Howell

Chapter 4.Procreative imaginations. When experts disagree on the meanings of kinship
Marit Melhuus

Chapter 5.Family tracings. Global gazes of Norwegian-American genealogies
Sarah Lund

Chapter 6.The understanding of migration and the discourse of nationalism. Dominicans in New York City
Christian Krohn-Hansen

Chapter 7.Weeding Tasmanian bush. Biomigration and landscape imagery
Marianne E. Lien

Chapter 8.Epochs of scale-making in Papua
Eric Hirsch

Chapter 9.Standardised uniqueness. Rearticulating identiy in a Norwegian town
Erik Henningsen

Chapter 10.Arresting mobilityl39