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Spatial Formats under the Global Condition

Author : Matthias Middell,Steffi Marung
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110643008

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Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other hand. Under the global condition spatial formats are products of collective negotiations on the most effective and widely acceptable balance between the claim for sovereignty and the need for interconnectedness.

Spatial Formats under the Global Condition

Author : Matthias Middell,Steffi Marung
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110639414

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Spatial Formats under the Global Condition by Matthias Middell,Steffi Marung Pdf

Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other hand. Under the global condition spatial formats are products of collective negotiations on the most effective and widely acceptable balance between the claim for sovereignty and the need for interconnectedness.

Spatial Entrepreneurs

Author : Steffi Marung,Ursula Rao
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110686418

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Spatial Entrepreneurs by Steffi Marung,Ursula Rao Pdf

As essential components of globalization, the study of practices and processes of space formation promotes a nuanced understanding of globalization. How do people create spaces for social action under the global condition, especially since the nineteenth century, when global interconnectedness increased rapidly? We explore the problem through specific case studies. Anthropologists, historians, geographers, sociologists, global studies scholars, and cultural studies scholars examine the agency of, e.g., members and staff of African regional organizations, Indian migrant workers, female GDR activists, Soviet planning experts, or US novelists. By studying elites as well as middle-class and micro-entrepreneurs – i.e. more and less influential actors – we encourage reflection on the relationship between power and space and examine how spatial entrepreneurs attempt to influence the shaping of space and their spatial literacy. The analysis aims at a better understanding of the different globalization projects, their crisis-like clashes, and the resulting conflictual development of spatial orders.

A Guide to Spatial History

Author : Konrad Lawson,Riccardo Bavaj,Bernhard Struck
Publisher : Olsokhagen
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781737136811

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A Guide to Spatial History by Konrad Lawson,Riccardo Bavaj,Bernhard Struck Pdf

This guide provides an overview of the thematic areas, analytical aspects, and avenues of research which, together, form a broader conversation around doing spatial history. Spatial history is not a field with clearly delineated boundaries. For the most part, it lacks a distinct, unambiguous scholarly identity. It can only be thought of in relation to other, typically more established fields. Indeed, one of the most valuable utilities of spatial history is its capacity to facilitate conversations across those fields. Consequently, it must be discussed in relation to a variety of historiographical contexts. Each of these have their own intellectual genealogies, institutional settings, and conceptual path dependencies. With this in mind, this guide surveys the following areas: territoriality, infrastructure, and borders; nature, environment, and landscape; city and home; social space and political protest; spaces of knowledge; spatial imaginaries; cartographic representations; and historical GIS research.

Spaces of Responsibility

Author : Diana Ayeh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110690163

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Spaces of Responsibility by Diana Ayeh Pdf

Spaces of Responsibility explores the role of ethics in (re)ordering extractive relations under the global condition. Through an empirical investigation of actors, places, and ideas in and around Burkina Faso’s industrial gold mining sector, this volume carries out an anti-essentialist yet critical examination, offering new insights into global mining capitalism. Corporate concession-making practices, the implementation of (national) mining legislation, and civil society interventions in mining areas all contribute in different ways to the dialectics of the global. Accordingly, the ongoing territorialization of mining investment often has considerable impacts on the well-being of populations in the Global South. At the same time, multinational corporations today cannot completely distance or isolate themselves from the political, economic, and social contexts they are interacting in and with. Drawing on theoretical debates about the links between resource extraction and socio-economic development, multi-scalar negotiations of ethics in mining governance are ethnographically retraced. In terms of gains and benefits, these negotiations manifest themselves spatially, providing access for some actors while excluding others.

Imagining Southern Spaces

Author : Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110692471

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Imagining Southern Spaces by Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar Pdf

Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces ́investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.

Mapping Modern Mahayana

Author : Jens Reinke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110690156

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Mapping Modern Mahayana by Jens Reinke Pdf

This book presents a multi-sited ethnographic study of the global development of the Taiwanese Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan. It explores the order’s modern Buddhist social engagements by examining three globally dispersed field sites: Los Angeles in the United States of America, Bronkhorstspruit in South Africa, and Yixing in the People’s Republic of China. The data collected at these field sites is embedded within the context of broader theoretical discussions on Buddhism, modernity, globalization, and the nation-state. By examining how one particular modern Buddhist religiosity that developed in a specific place moves into a global context, the book provides a fresh view of what constitutes both modern and contemporary Buddhism while also exploring the social, cultural, and religious fabrics that underlie the spatial configurations of globalization.

Spatial Entrepreneurs

Author : Steffi Marung,Ursula Rao
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110686449

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Spatial Entrepreneurs by Steffi Marung,Ursula Rao Pdf

As essential components of globalization, the study of practices and processes of space formation promotes a nuanced understanding of globalization. How do people create spaces for social action under the global condition, especially since the nineteenth century, when global interconnectedness increased rapidly? We explore the problem through specific case studies. Anthropologists, historians, geographers, sociologists, global studies scholars, and cultural studies scholars examine the agency of, e.g., members and staff of African regional organizations, Indian migrant workers, female GDR activists, Soviet planning experts, or US novelists. By studying elites as well as middle-class and micro-entrepreneurs – i.e. more and less influential actors – we encourage reflection on the relationship between power and space and examine how spatial entrepreneurs attempt to influence the shaping of space and their spatial literacy. The analysis aims at a better understanding of the different globalization projects, their crisis-like clashes, and the resulting conflictual development of spatial orders.

Locating the Global

Author : Holger Weiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110670714

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Locating the Global by Holger Weiss Pdf

This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together interlinked case-studies that analyse various temporal and spatial dimensions of the global in the local and the interactions between the local and the global. The case-studies apply a spatial approach to analyse how global questions of space, movement, networks, borders, and territory are worked out at a local level. The material draws on the Nordic countries, Europe, the Atlantic world, Africa, and Australia and ranges from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It is further divided into sections that address topics such as the translocality of humans and goods, local articulations of identities and globalities, parliamentarism and anti-colonialism, the organization of knowledge and the construction of spaces of representation and memory.

African Military Politics in the Sahel

Author : Katharina P. W. Döring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009362245

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African Military Politics in the Sahel by Katharina P. W. Döring Pdf

Analyzes the politics around military deployments in the Sahel since 2012 from a critical geopolitics perspective.

Making Spaces through Infrastructure

Author : Marian Burchardt,Dirk van Laak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111191850

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Making Spaces through Infrastructure by Marian Burchardt,Dirk van Laak Pdf

Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which shape our everyday practices and which regulate access to services and resources? And, conversely, how do spaces frame the ways infrastructural provision is organized? How do existing spaces shape infrastructural development and the scope and forms of access to vital services such as transport and water? In this volume, historians and sociologists draw on a range of fascinating case studies and provide compelling answers to these questions. Exploring, among others, the provision of irrigation water in nineteenth-century Los Angeles, the invention of airport transit zones, and the infrastructural practices of homeless people in Berlin, the book demonstrates how the making of spaces through infrastructure is deeply political. Intent on revealing uneven geographies of provision and hierarchies of access, the contributors highlight how infrastructures are products of global entanglements.

Global Literary Studies

Author : Diana Roig-Sanz,Neus Rotger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110740301

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Global Literary Studies by Diana Roig-Sanz,Neus Rotger Pdf

While the very existence of global literary studies as an institutionalised field is not yet fully established, the global turn in various disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences has been gaining traction in recent years. This book aims to contribute to the field of global literary studies with a more inclusive and decentralising approach. Specifically, it responds to a double demand: the need for expanding openness to other ways of seeing the global literary space by including multiple literary and cultural traditions and other interdisciplinary perspectives in the discussion, and the need for conceptual models and different case studies that will help develop a global approach in four key avenues of research: global translation flows and translation policies, the post-1989 novel as a global form, global literary environments, and a global perspective on film and cinema history. Gathering contributions from international scholars with expertise in various areas of research, the volume is structured around five target concepts: space, scale, time, connectivity, and agency. We also take gender and LGBTQ+ perspectives, as well as a digital approach.

Universal – International – Global

Author : Antje Kempe,Beata Hock,Marina Dmitrieva
Publisher : Böhlau Köln
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783412520823

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Universal – International – Global by Antje Kempe,Beata Hock,Marina Dmitrieva Pdf

This collection of articles explores a possible alternative beginning of Global Art History and World Art Studies, two methodologies that set a worldwide focus in the study of art around the 2000s. Teaching back to earlier efforts to conceive of the international community in a less Eurocentric way, the volume proposes a tentative link between socialist internationalism as a political and cultural diplomatic principle in the Soviet Block and some new approaches to art and cultural historiography introduced there. In the "Second World", universal art history or Weltkunstgeschichte were endorsed as frameworks for the teaching and writing of art history. Authors in this book interrogate whether "world art history" as practiced by socialist scholars had aspirations and achievements comparable to today's Global Art History and World Art Studies. Or was this knowledge production in an internationalist paradigm a mere foil for communist rhetoric, behind which severed cultural relations to the Western world could also be recommenced?

The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization

Author : Matthias Middell,Megan Maruschke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110620290

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The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization by Matthias Middell,Megan Maruschke Pdf

The French Revolution has primarily been understood as a national event that also had a lasting impact in Europe and in the Atlantic world. Recently, historiography has increasingly emphasized how France’s overseas colonies also influenced the contours of the French Revolution. This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the assumption that revolutions shatter not only the political and economic old regime order at home but, in an increasingly interdependent world, also result in processes of respatialization. The French Revolution, therefore, is analysed as a key event in a global history that seeks to account for the shifting spatial organization of societies on a transregional scale.

What’s Left of Marxism

Author : Benjamin Zachariah,Lutz Raphael,Brigitta Bernet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110677744

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What’s Left of Marxism by Benjamin Zachariah,Lutz Raphael,Brigitta Bernet Pdf

Have Marxian ideas been relevant or influential in the writing and interpretation of history? What are the Marxist legacies that are now re-emerging in present-day histories? This volume is an attempt at relearning what the “discipline” of history once knew – whether one considered oneself a Marxist, a non-Marxist or an anti-Marxist.