THE POLITICS OF BELONGING: PLUNDERING THE LOCAL, CLAIMING THE GLOBAL
ABSTRACT: The ‘global’ and
‘local’ are often conceptually perceived as an opposite and obliterate. Due to the
intensive process of globalization, many people imagined about the vanishing
process of locality. The intensive migration towards cities and the
internalization of new values into the local community through the
telecommunication infrastructures would directly affect the existence of
localities. All of this process leads to the alienation of local community to
their values and cultures. Some scholars demonstrate that the globalization
also initiate the new globalized cultures which clearly shows their local
roots. Migration to the cities, however, did not simultanously push people away
from their connections with the vilage of origin. Some studies showed that in
many societies there were growing tendencies of migrants involved actively
sponsor the local rituals at their home village to regain new status. This
phenomenons indicate that the ‘global’ and the ‘local’ are not always in an
opposite position, rather than complementary. Accordingly, the intensive
globalization did not eradicate localities, but in many cases revitalize it
although in different forms and values.
Author: Agus Indiyanto
Journal Code: jpantropologigg120006
