ABSTRACT
Countless people are traveling, migrating, and living globally for various reasons in starkly different conditions, disrupting, negotiating, and reinforcing the linkage of cultures, peoples, identities, nations, and specific places. Along with these people, flowing are capital, markets, technologies, and cultures. In its most general sense, this increasing global movement of capital, images, ideas, and people characterizes the word“globalization.”As Torgovnick states, this is the postmodern, with its “polyglot, syncretic nature, its hodgepodge of the indigenous and the imported, the native and the foreign” (cited in Kelsky, 1996, p. 47). My traveling narrative starts from this point, noting how these enormous flows inextricably complicate every sphere of our lives. In this movement, I recognize my privileged location as a marginal/migrant intellectual who could afford to travel whether in class/educational aspiration or in desire to flee from the living conditions I could not bear anymore.
