Overview
- Relativizes modes of imagining globalization and the global in contemporary culture
- Rethinks prevailing conceptions of the world, the earth, the globe, and the planet
- Analyzes global imaginations from a wide range of past and peripheral cultures, such as (post)colonial Philippines, the Holy Roman Empire, and occupied Palestine
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society (PSGCS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume challenges dominant imaginations of globalization by highlighting alternative visions of the globe, world, earth, or planet that abound in cultural, social, and political practice. In the contemporary context of intensive globalization, ruthless geopolitics, and unabated environmental exploitation, these “other globes” offer paths for thinking anew the relations between people, polities, and the planet. Derived from disparate historical and cultural contexts, which include the Holy Roman Empire; late medieval Brabant; the (post)colonial Philippines; early twentieth-century Britain; contemporary Puerto Rico; occupied Palestine; postcolonial Africa and Chile; and present-day California, the past and peripheral globes analyzed in this volume reveal the variety of ways in which the global has been—and might be—imagined. As such, the fourteen contributions underline that there is no neutral, natural, or universal way of inhabiting the global.
Reviews
“Other Globes offers a compelling interdisciplinary and remarkably transnational argument for the notion that the view from nowhere is also one of many views from somewhere. It aims not so much to do away with the ‘global’ as provincialize it.” (Benjamin Lazier, Professor in History and Humanities, Reed College, USA and author of Earthrise; or, The Globalization of the World Picture)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Simon Ferdinand is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His book Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography and the Space of Global Modernity is forthcoming.
Irene Villaescusa-Illán is Visiting Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Esther Peeren is Professor of Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Other Globes
Book Subtitle: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization
Editors: Simon Ferdinand, Irene Villaescusa-Illán, Esther Peeren
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14980-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14979-6Published: 23 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14980-2Published: 13 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-9282
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9290
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Global/International Culture, Media and Communication, Postcolonial/World Literature, Human Geography