21. Sites of Solidarity: Ethnic Belonging in Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, and a World of Difference
- Author:
- Eleni Zimiles
- Publication Date:
- 01-2009
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Macalester International
- Institution:
- Macalester College
- Abstract:
- Arriving on European soil in August 2007, my perception of globalization was largely comprised of the extensive and intangible tides of contemporary macro-institutional forces, such as that of the global economy or international governing bodies. Over the course of the year, another face of globalization was revealed, one that was a “much wider and deeper rendez-vous.” I began to more fully comprehend globalization as a historically deep conglomeration of overlapping global and local processes that affect individuals on an intimate level. However, while definitions are indispensably parsimonious, they are not sufficient. It is the anthropology student's role to open these compressed understandings and expose the full details of globalization's universalities and particularities, in effect creating a global “ethnography of the particular.”
- Political Geography:
- Europe, Netherlands, and Ireland