This paper interrogates the emerging practices of narrative methods in research that focuses on mobility and migration. It seeks to understand how these methods enable a conceptualization of global politics that challenges the global/local divide, revealing instead complex entanglements through which the local and the global are mutually constituted. Focusing in particular on the primacy of narrative, and on the concept of “translation,” the paper argues that participants in research author narratives in ways that reveal alternative, powerful accounts of global politics that are meaning-making and demand an understanding of “local” knowledges as valid and important insights into how global politics is understood. Ultimately, these methods engage the heterogeneous, multiple, and ultimately fully relational narratives of individuals who are autonomous and creative, and the ways these accounts interrupt the dominant narratives of how the world is politically understood—and is politically practiced.

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叙述纠缠：重新思考民族志迁移研究中的本地/全球鸿沟

本文审视了叙事方法在研究中的新兴实践，这些研究集中于流动性和迁徙性。它试图了解这些方法如何使挑战全球/地方鸿沟的全球政治概念化，而揭示复杂的纠缠，通过这种纠缠，地方与全球相互构成。该论文特别关注叙事的首要性和“翻译”的概念，认为研究作者叙事的参与者以揭示全球政治的替代性，有力的解释为手段，这些解释具有意义，并要求人们理解“地方性”。知识是了解全球政治的有效而重要的见解。最终，这些方法会涉及异构，多种，