The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism

Kearney, Michael

doi:10.1146/annurev.an.24.100195.002555

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“…The individuals participating in transnational social spaces or fields are in no way a homogenous group and, accordingly, it has been emphasised that there are many ways of "being transnational", which refers to different social spaces (Smith, 2002). Individuals move through different social fields (Kearney, 1995) which represent a complex set of factors influencing individual practices, attitudes and identifications. The complexity of the internal dynamics of a particular field and the co-influence of a variety of social fields evoked the concepts of "power-geometry" (Massey, 1991, Sørensen, 1998, Vertovec, 2001) or the new cross-border geography (Sassen, 2002) which emphasise the issue of differential embeddedness.…”

Section: Transnational Social Fieldsmentioning

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Exploring Identifications in the Transnational Social Sphere: The Potential of Social Fields

Голоб

2014

Sip

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The article attempts to discuss certain issues related to contemporary identifications, social changes and technological development that are reflected in the transnational sphere. The first one refers to the possibility of individual action within social settings and therefore the extent of individual freedom from exterior influences is at the forefront. The second one tackles the individual or collective perception of selves and the exterior world, which then leads to the third question: how can one actually consider identity construction or identification in transnational social spheres? The notion we believe can elucidate the complex relationship between the individual and society and reveal important aspects in identity formations is that of the social field, particularly the transnational social field. In the modern era, individuals participate in many social fields which do not always correlate with local or national boundaries. The possibility of their individual freedom and social change is thus more present, but is still conditioned by different types of capital and other social forces. The concept evokes the idea of a habitus, which reflects a different context of a structured framework of evaluations and expectations which, as proposed by Bourdieu (1977), leads to the conscious or intuitive prioritising of certain dispositions and practices. The concept allows us to explore how socio-economic, cultural and personal backgrounds influence a person's identity negotiations and constructions in the transnational sphere, while it also encompasses the influence of border crossing and transnational connections.

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Section: Transnational Social Fieldsmentioning

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Exploring Identifications in the Transnational Social Sphere: The Potential of Social Fields

Голоб

2014

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“…Each of these tribes works to maintain connections to their former villages culturally and generationally by supporting research projects, applying for caretaking funds, and using and appreciating their ancestral homelands. Kearney [19] highlights population movement and its concomitant adjustments in the context of globalization and deterritorialization, where capitalist enterprises relocate operations, and can lead to the detachment of communities and identities from local places. In this same light, centers of production moved off of Sanak and other locations and people coalesced around these new bases, creating new villages.…”

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“…Many people have become separated from their land or "deterritorialized" [18,19]. This displacement and disruption can be traumatic, especially for those who have never been able to live in their home village (e.g., [20]).…”

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Sustaining Sanak Island, Alaska: A Cultural Land Trust

Reedy-Maschner

Maschner

2013

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Sanak Island is the easternmost of the Aleutian Islands and was inhabited by the Aleut (Unangan) peoples for nearly 7000 years. The past few centuries of Sanak Island life for its Aleut residents can be summarized from ethnohistoric documents and extensive interviews with former residents as shifting local-global economic patterns beginning with the sea otter fur trade, followed by cod and salmon fishing, fox farming, and cattle ranching through waves of Russian, American, and Scandinavian authority and/or influence. As the industries changed and the island absorbed new peoples with new goals, Aleut identity and practices also changed as part of these shifting economic and social environments. Sanak Island was abandoned in the 1970s and although uninhabited today, Sanak Island is managed as an important land trust for the island's descendants that serves local peoples as a marine-scape rich in resources for Aleut subsistence harvesting and as a local heritage site where people draw on the diverse historical influences and legacies. Further, this move from an industrial heritage to contemporary local subsistence economies facilitated by a commercial fishing industry is a unique reversal of development in the region with broad implications for community sustainability among indigenous communities. We find that by being place-focused, rather than place-based, community sustainability can be maintained even in the context of relocation and the loss of traditional villages. This will likely become more common as indigenous peoples adapt to globalization and the forces of global change.

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“…This failure to distinguish between transnational and trans-statal, has allowed methodological nationalism to come through the back door, through the '-national' aspect of the 'transnational' because it has often been allowed to continue to signify the unity of territory, state, and nation (Kearney 1995). The subversion of borders and the promise of the dismantling of methodological nationalism implied in the 'trans', have been undermined by the implicit assumption of unity of what those borders contain, the naturalization mode of methodological nationalism (Wimmer and Schiller 2003: 579).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within anthropology the concept of 'trans-statal' was first proposed in the sense used here by Catherine Verdery (1994: 4). However, it is a concept that has been scarcely taken up as Ulf Hannerz (1998) and Michael Kearney (1995) noted.…”

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Transformations of Old Colony Mennonites: the making of a trans‐statal community

Bottos

2008

Global Networks

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The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism

Cited by 1,039 publications

References 43 publications

Exploring Identifications in the Transnational Social Sphere: The Potential of Social Fields

Exploring Identifications in the Transnational Social Sphere: The Potential of Social Fields

Sustaining Sanak Island, Alaska: A Cultural Land Trust

Transformations of Old Colony Mennonites: the making of a trans‐statal community

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