The story of the ship-in-a-bottle : Encountering strangeness and familiarity through a globalised object

Hulme, A. (2020) The story of the ship-in-a-bottle : Encountering strangeness and familiarity through a globalised object. In: Axford, B., Brisbourne, A., Halperin, S. and Lueders, C. (eds.) Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter : Essays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalisation. Routledge.

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Abstract:	This chapter speaks to Chris Rumford’s thought on globalisation and strangeness, as well as to the colonial encounter and its presence in the current day. It also reflects his influence and encouragement to use storytelling as a mode of drawing out analysis, especially that of objects. The ‘story’ of the ship-in-a-bottle will unfurl via ethnographic vignettes – a seaside town resident who longs for the days before immigrants arrived, and a Chinese manufacturer keen to gain the best profit margin from sales to the West. These will ground a discussion of the place of strangeness and familiarity in the current globalised and globalising era. Specifically, this discussion will focus on the multiple experiences of globalization embodied by one single object, thus challenging the ‘one-world’ hypothesis by allowing a view from China in to the (typically) Eurocentric debates on globalisation. It will also question what best to do with experiences of strangeness, and to what extent the comfort of familiar things is acceptable in a globalised world.
Creators:	Hulme, Alison
Editors:	Axford, Barrie, Brisbourne, Alistair, Halperin, Sandra and Lueders, Claudia
Publisher:	Routledge
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Business & Law > Economics, Intl Relations & Development
Date:	11 September 2020
Date Type:	Publication
Title of Book:	Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter : Essays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalisation
Series Name:	Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics
Number of Pages:	14
Language:	English
ISBN:	9780367347314
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429345029 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/e... https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/public...
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/16032

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