TY - UNPD A1 - Römhild, Regina T1 - Practised imagination : tracing transnational networks in Crete and beyond ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main T2 - Working paper / Research Group Transnationalism ; 3 N2 - The imagination has become a major site for studying transnational cultural flows. Yet it is mainly the mass media that are explored as channels directing the imagination from "the West" towards "the rest". And there is still little empirical "testing" of this field. How do such ‐ and other ‐ imaginary sources work into social practice? And what does such "practised imagination" imply for the practice of transnational anthropology? This article attempts to address these questions from the perspective of fieldwork in progress. In and between Crete and Germany I traced transnational networks based on the reciprocal mobilities of migration, remigration, and tourism. Here, multiple domains of imagination are drawn upon by various audiences, thus effectively contributing to the creation of these relations and the places in which they localise. Anthropological research on tourism and migration has tended to separate the imagination ‐ as being an external impact ‐ from local practice. Yet, transnational ethnography needs to challenge this opposition and is in itself a strategy to do so, in that it perceives the imagination as a practice of transcending physical and cultural distance. T3 - Research Group Transnationalism Working Paper - 3 KW - imagination KW - transnational networks KW - tourism KW - migration KW - Crete Y1 - 2003 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1732 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-36698 UR - http://luke.uni-frankfurt.de/fit/wp/abstracts/roemhild.html N1 - Zuerst erschienen in: Ina-Maria Greverus u.a. (eds.), Shifting Grounds. Experiments in Doing Ethnography. Anthropological Journal on European Cultures, 11 (2002), pp. 159 -190. ER -