Other Globes

Zusatztext

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 beenand might beimagined. As such, the fourteen contributions underline that there is no neutral, natural, or universal way of inhabiting the global.

Autorenportrait

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.

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