Translocality (Studies in Global Social History)

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
List of Maps......Page 18
Note on Transliteration......Page 20
Introduction: \'Translocality\': An Approach to Connection and Transfer in Area Studies (Ulrike Freitag/Achim von Oppen)......Page 22
PART ONE: MARGINAL MOBILITIES......Page 44
Wodaabe Women and the Outside World (Elisabeth Boesen)......Page 46
Chinese Women in the New Migration Process to Europe: Marginal or Main Actors? (Carine Pina-Guerassimoff)......Page 76
Proud Fighters, Blind Men: World War Experiences of Combatants from the Arab East (Katharina Lange)......Page 104
\'Following the Hills\': Gold Mining Camps as Heterotopias (Katja Werthmann)......Page 132
PART TWO: SPACES ON THE MOVE......Page 154
Mapping the Ocean: Visual Representations of the Indian Ocean in the Swahili Military Press during World War II (Katrin Bromber)......Page 156
Regional Attractions: World and Village in Kabylia (Algeria) (Judith Scheele)......Page 180
Translocal \'Kinship\' Relations in Central African Politics of the 19th Century (Beatrix Heintze)......Page 200
PART THREE: LOCALITY AND BEYOND......Page 226
Autochthony: Local or Global? (Peter Geschiere)......Page 228
Heritage and the Making of (Trans-)local Identities: A Case Study from the Curonian Spit (Lithuania) (Anja Peleikis)......Page 250
Shifting Globalities—Changing Headgear: The Indian Muslims between Turban, Hat and Fez (Margrit Pernau)......Page 270
Reclaiming the African City: The World and the Township (Terence Ranger)......Page 290
PART FOUR: ALTERNATE GLOBALITIES......Page 312
\'Alternate\' Globalities? On the Cultures and Formats of Transnational Muslim Networks from South Asia (Dietrich Reetz)......Page 314
Globalisation in the Making: Translocal Gendered Spaces in Muslim Societies (Gudrun Lachenmann)......Page 356
About \'Turks\' and \'Germans\': The Turkish Press in Germany and the Construction of Multiple Memberships (Christoph Schumann)......Page 390
Bibliography......Page 422
Index of Personal Names......Page 462
Index of Place Names......Page 465