Translocality and Translocal Subjectivities  [Elektronisk resurs] <em>A Research Overview Across the Fields of Migration, Culture, and Urban Studies</em>

• The present report is an attempt to provide an overview over intersecting beginnings, emergencies, and prolongations that reinforces a theoretical reflection on contemporary cultural debate and its repercussions on societal development. With the current research overview, we want to draw attention to assumptions about culture(s), as they are played out in the intersection of migration and sustainable urban development. Multi-layered and doubleedged, ‘culture’ often comes with territorial postulates and implicit ideas about belongings and borders, movements and rights of priority. The report approaches these entangled issues from several angles. With the point of departure in current environmental policy, the first section of the report, therefore, approaches ideas of “sustainability” via the notions of “culture” and “locality”. A second section briefly discusses the methodological challenges of researching emergent cultural phenomena across both geographical and disciplinary borders. In a third section, we turn to three research reports, a sampling of the report literature, but representative of how global, regional and local perspectives on culture today are ‘scaffolded’ in relation to mobility and migration. A fourth section introduces emergent transversal, i.e. non-categorical, approaches to cultural research, primarily focusing on how notions such as transnationalism and translocality may inform new modes of research and urban development. A fifth section finally, articulates some recommendations about how to relate to translocal space and translocal subjectivities in practice and how to craft research approaches that not only involve interlocutors but also answers to and actively engage in current spatial and cultural changes. 

Ämnesord

Humanities and the Arts  (hsv)

Other Humanities  (hsv)

Other Humanities not elsewhere specified  (hsv)

Humaniora och konst  (hsv)

Annan humaniora  (hsv)

Övrig annan humaniora  (hsv)

Urban studies  (mau)

Urbana studier  (mau)

Genre

government publication  (marcgt)