Transnational Habitus as Conceptual Tool

This chapter addresses what is meant by transnational habitus as a conceptual toolconceptual tool. In so doing, we are interested in the potential of transnational habitus, as an analytical linchpin, in making sense of the social world, particularly with regard to transnational social spaces. For example, in considering transnational habitus, do scholars come to understand it as a system of dispositionsdispositions which allow individuals to function in a variety of different nation-statesnation-states? How is transnational habitus tied to Bourdieu’s other tools and how agents operationalize various material and symbolic capitalscapitals? How may a transnational habitus interact and supersede local environments? Does anyone experiencing transnational mobilities have aspects of a transnational habitus? It would be difficult to address these questions without first of all engaging with the concept of habitus itself. For this very reason, we need to revisit habitus before we consider the complexity of transnationalismtransnationalism.