translocal

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ local.

Adjective

translocal (not comparable)

1. Between locations.
2. (mathematics) Between points in a space.
   • 2016, Saeed Rastgoo, Manfred Requardt, “Emergent Space-Time via a Geometric Renormalization Method”, in arXiv‎:

     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..

3. (sociology) Involving a sense of identity split between or blended from multiple locations, especially in multiple ethnic regions.
   • 2001, “Sites Unseen: Ethnographic Research in a Textual Community”, in Qualitative Studies in Education, 14.4, p. 568:

     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.

   • 2007, German Historical Institute, Bulletin, numbers 40-43, page 80:

     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.