Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging

by Marit Melhuus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184545250X
• ISBN13: 9781845452506
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"