Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Introduction. Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (Simon Ferdinand, Irene Villaescusa-Illán, Esther Peeren)....Pages 1-39 Protest from the Margins: Emerging Global Networks in the Early Sixteenth Century and Their German Detractors (Peter Hess)....Pages 41-62 Being in the Globe: Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights at the Fringes of Modern Globalism (Simon Ferdinand)....Pages 63-84 The Nature of the Historical: Forming Worlds, Resisting the Temptation (Patrick D. Flores)....Pages 85-106 H. G. Wells and Planetary Prose (Cóilín Parsons)....Pages 107-123 Visions of Global Modernity in Hispano-Filipino Literature (Irene Villaescusa-Illán)....Pages 125-147 Global Africa (Bill Ashcroft)....Pages 149-164 World-Imagining from Below (Jennifer Wenzel)....Pages 165-175 Novelization in Decolonization, or, Postcolonialism Reconsidered (Peter Hitchcock)....Pages 177-194 Ethnoplanetarity: Contemporaneity and Scale in Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz and El botón de nácar (Alexis Radisoglou)....Pages 195-211 Weirding Earth: Reimagining the Global Through Speculative Cartographies in Literature, Art, and Music (Grzegorz Czemiel)....Pages 213-230 Planetary Lovers: On Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens’s Water Makes Us Wet (Miriam Tola)....Pages 231-248 A World in Miniatures: Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands (Christoph Schaub)....Pages 249-266 The End-of-the-World as World System (Robert T. Tally Jr.)....Pages 267-283 Back Matter ....Pages 285-300