When the World Turned Upside Down - Politics, Culture, and the Unimaginable Events of 2019-2022 (Paperback, New edition)

When the World Turned Upside Down is a collection of 65 essays and opinion columns written between 2019 and 2022, a period of momentous-some unimaginable-developments in the United States and across the world. This book stands at the intersection between opinion journalism and history, its individual components offering a dialogue between past and present (or present and past). They are, to use the often-quoted phrase, first drafts of history. Over the past five years, the world has witnessed several "unimaginables" about which the author felt compelled to write. Some of the book's essays identify, analyze and connect parallels between the U.S. Antebellum and Civil War and the contemporary increasingly polarized context that reached an explosive peak during the 2020 elections and the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Shrouded in a cloud of unprecedented global pestilence, the world has witnessed dramatic political and geopolitical change, mostly for the worse: China, Russia, Hungary, Belarus, Myanmar, Cuba, even Puerto Rico. Essays in this book discuss these transformations from a historical perspective as well as mass popular resistance, in places like Cuba, where they seemed unimaginable. The book's final section, entitled "Not Boring at all: Globalization and World Politics," explores the global ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical rearrangements related to China's meteoric ascendance as world power, Russia's militaristic expansionism and related topics.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2022
Authors:	Luis Martinez-Fernandez
Dimensions:	235mm (L)
Format:	Paperback
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-9614-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism
LSN:	1-4331-9614-X
Barcode:	9781433196140

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