To Issue a Firefly's Glow Wormhole Geographies and Positionality in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

[...]I choose to interpret Changez's words in terms of his emigration from Pakistan to the US and his global business travel. The same logic applies to individual agents and companies which occupy certain geographical locations. Since positionality 'can be ascribed to agents at scales ranging from the body to the world region' , even members within 'the same household typically are positioned differently with respect to one another' so that 'a working-class husband living in the north of England may experience privileged positionality as a result of his gender and nationality but marginalised positionality because of his class and regional location' (322). Besides the global-local dynamics of markets, the novel contrasts global travel with the movement within cities, which is never instantaneous. Like Yeung, Hamid identifies two things that are underrepresented in globalisation discourses: locality and social agency. Since for Yeung, globalisation is as much internal to 'localities as the localities are integral in the development and evolution of globalization processes' (293), we need to bring more 'attention to social actors who are not only constructing globalization in their various capacities, but experiencing significant transformations in their own everyday social lives' (302, emphasis in original).