Translocal

Quick meaning: Translocal is an adjective meaning Between locations.

Meaning

Between locations.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics) Between points in a space.
2. (sociology) Involving a sense of identity split between or blended from multiple locations, especially in multiple ethnic regions.

Example Sentences

First, I attempt to conceptualize the ethnic restaurant as a translocal space that is characterized by intercultural transfers of foods, technologies, and information, and that functions as a nodal point in transnational networks.

At the end of the paper we briefly mention the possibility that our network carries a translocal far-order which leads to the concept of wormhole spaces and a scale dependent dimension if the coarse graining procedure is no longer local.

In the following account of ethnographic research carried out in the context of a textual community, I demonstrate how 'translocal phenomena,' which I understand to include diasporic communities and communities that emerge in relation to the mass media and electronic communications, do not entirely evade classical methods of participant observation as some ethnographers have assumed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include interlocal, interlocation, transnational, intralocation, interterritorial, supralocal.

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