Peripheral visions in the globalizing present : space, mobility, aesthetics

Peripheral visions in the globalizing present : space, mobility, aesthetics / edited by Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit, Astrid Van Weyenberg.

This volume sheds new light on how today's peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized in a context of rapidly advancing globalization. Focusing on peripheral spaces, mobilities and aesthetics, it presents critical readings of, among others, Indian caste quarters, the Sahara, the South...

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Other Authors: Peeren, Esther (Editor), Stuit, Hanneke (Editor), Weyenberg, A. van, 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:Thamyris intersecting ; no. 31.
Subjects:
Marginality, Social.
Boundaries > Social aspects.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Equality.
Assimilation (Sociology)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Boundaries > Social aspects
Equality
Globalization > Social aspects
Marginality, Social
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Table of Contents:
  • Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present: Space, Mobility, Aesthetics; Copyright; Contents; Thamyris Mission Statement; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present; Part 1: Theorizing the Peripheral; 1 A Grammar of Peripheralization: Neill Blomkamp's District 9; 2 The Infra-Periphery and Global Circuits of Symbolic Capital Accumulation; 3 Fragments in Relation: Trajectories of/for an Unbound Europe; 4 Peripheral Worldscapes in Circulation: Towards a Productive Understanding of Untranslatability; Part 2: Peripheral Spaces.
  • 5 The Center of All Concerns at the Periphery of the World: The Sahara Desert from a Nomadic Perspective6 Cast(e)ing Life: The Experience of Living in Peripheral Caste Quarters; 7 The South African Backyard as a Very Local Peripheral Space; Part 3: Peripheral Mobilities; 8 Mobile Peripheries? Contesting and Negotiating Peripheries in the Global Era of Mobility; 9 "Repairing Europe": A Critical Reading of Storytelling in European Cultural Projects; 10 The Rise of the Peripheral Subject: Questions of Cultural Hybridity in the Greek "Crisis"; Part 4: Peripheral Aesthetics.
  • 11 Remains to be Un/Seen: Envisioning the Disappeared in Willie Doherty's Ancient Ground and Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light12 Shaping "Common Places": Post-Soviet Narratives beyond Anti-Utopia in Ksenia Buksha's The Freedom Factory and Igor Saveljev's Tereshkova is Flying to Mars; 13 The Heterotopic Closet: Spectral Presences and Otherworlds in La Revue Monstre and Michael James O'Brien's Interiors; Name Index.

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