ABSTRACT
This chapter on globalization and interactions with the outside world picks up and extends on the point reached in the chapter on technologies. One of the underlying tensions in much of the discussion in this chapter is the idea that mobile communities that can appear inward looking and almost self-sustaining also need to be aware of and respond to particular challenges presented by the outside world. It is more than the imperative to remain viable, however, that can lead those communities to adopt a more globalized perspective and to promote interactions with the outside world that are beyond what they regularly do. The chapter, through its exploration of the ways that these communities respond to and interact in a globalized world, broadens readers’ understandings and interpretations of bargee, circus, and show communities.
