@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt2ttq9d.3,
 ISBN = {9781551110714},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttq9d.3},
 abstract = {Like its subjects, the study of race and ethnicity has combined an enthusiasm for invention and border crossings with an equally determined parochialism. For nearly three decades, anthropologists and sociologists have stressed the socially constructed and situationally contingent nature of racial and ethnic distinctions. With the end of the Cold War, more people moving than ever before, and the relentless innovation of communication technologies, the boundaries and identities of local political units appear increasingly uncertain. Indeed in the ensuing scholarly celebration of border zones, the Local sometimes seems in danger of a premature epistemological oblivion: people may still be living},
 author = {Vered Amit-Talai and Caroline Knowles},
 booktitle = {Re-Situating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture},
 pages = {9--18},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Introduction: Against Parochialism and Fragmentation},
 year = {1996}
}