Do the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? How do transnational migration, communication and worldwide economic and political networks manifest themselves in globalised modernity? This book presents innovative co…
Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global
by Werron, Tobias, Albert, Mathias, Akopov, Sergei, Aksakal, Mustafa, Auer, Michael, Elmuradov, Aziz, Gasser, Lucy, Giebeler, Cornelia, Holtgreve, Sandra, Jacobsen, Marc, Preuss, Karlson, Sunca, Yasin, Vásquez, Gladys, Universität Bielefeld
fromGlobal studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
The "global" is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets. It aims to provi…