Defining Translocality
Scrutinizing the growing literature on translocality, one is confronted with amultitude of terms,
revolving around notions of mobility, connectedness, networks, place, locality and locals, flows,
travel, transfer and circulatory knowledge. Some authors seek conceptual coherence by
synthesising these terms with reference to different bodies of social theory (e.g. Bourdieu,
Giddens) (e.g. Brickell and Datta 2011a; Greiner and Sakdapolrak 2012; Steinbrink 2009),
whereas others use translocality as an “umbrella term” to describe mobilities and multiple forms
of spatial connectedness (e.g. Grillo and Riccio 2004; Ma 2002).