The employment of translocality as a research perspective is currently gaining momentum. A
growing number of scholars from different research traditions concerned with the dynamics …

This article argues for an approach to understanding new lifestyle flows that acknowledges
the roles of postcoloniality and privilege in facilitating migration and framing cultural politics …

The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest
in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing-the large-scale acquisition of land in …

In this book, we draw from in-depth ethnographic research conducted in Malaysia and
Panama, and build theoretically on our conceptual works to date, to illustrate how lifestyle …

This paper offers an introduction to this Special Issue of International Development Planning
Review. It uses the concepts of translocal development, development corridors and …

In this article, I take the case of North American lifestyle migrants living in Boquete, Panama
to highlight (1) how the privilege of these migrants is remade following migration,(2) how it is …

This paper describes the cultural adaptation of American retirees living in two traditional
retirement destinations in Mexico (Lake Chapala, state of Jalisco and San Miguel de …

This article brings the critiques of anticolonial theorists into conversation with the burgeoning
literature on Global North-to-South lifestyle migration–including scholarship employing …

Current patterns of “move-in move-out” hypermobility are perfectly exemplified by residential
tourism: the temporary or permanent mobility of relatively well-to-do citizens from mostly …

This paper argues that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in
theorization about local development. In particular, we make connections across two …