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tity politics to the cultural implications of new information technology, and he now, using the metaphor of “overheating,” studies local responses to global crises in ways inspired by Ulf Hannerz’ pioneering vision of a truly global anthropology. His books include Ethnicity and Nationalism (1993/2010), Engaging Anthropology (2006), and Globalization: The Key Concepts (2007/2014). Thomas Fillitz is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, and was encouraged by Ulf Hannerz to apply for the post of Secretary of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), a function he carried out between 2007 and 2013. Within the frame of his major research interests—global art, the art world, art markets, globalization, and transnational processes—Thomas strongly relies on concepts developed by Ulf Hannerz, such as global culture, cultural diversity, and transnational connections. Christina Garsten is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and recently joined Copenhagen Business School as Professor of Globalization and Organization. She is also Chair of the Executive Board of the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research. Her interests in transnational organizations as drivers of globalization processes and their role in the shaping of social identities and forms of sociality bear strong traces of Ulf Hannerz’ influence as a long-term source of inspiration. Her most recent book is Organisational Anthropology (co-edited with Anette Nyqvist, Pluto Press, 2013). Andre Gingrich is a member of the Royal Swedish and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. His main research interests are the Middle East in the past and present, qualitative methodologies such as comparison, and the history of anthropology. He has collaborated with Ulf Hannerz on neonationalism and is coediting with him a book on anthropology’s take on “small countries” in transnational and globalized contexts. Thomas Blom Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and Director of the Center for South Asia at Stanford. His research on religious and political identity politics, urban violence, state formation, and sovereignty has focused on India and postapartheid South Africa. He has an abiding interest in urban anthropology and in the dynamics of everyday urban phenomenology in large, culturally