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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.
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.
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. Steffi
Marung is Director of the Global and European Studies Institute at
Leipzig University. Her work includes global histories of socialism
in the twentieth century and East-South-connections during the Cold
War and their legacies. Ursula Rao is Director of the Department
“Anthropology of Politics and Governance” at the Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale). Her research
focuses on issues of politics and governance in India, with a
particular focus on the consequences of rapid digitization.
Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered
spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and
western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects
that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end
of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore
alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world
during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming
scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China,
Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and
interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the
postwar period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc
after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these
former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist
today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the
economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this
exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring
this understudied history of globalization and provide a
multifaceted study of an increasing postwar interconnectedness
across a socialist world.
Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered
spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and
western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects
that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end
of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore
alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world
during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming
scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China,
Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and
interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the
postwar period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc
after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these
former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist
today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the
economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this
exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring
this understudied history of globalization and provide a
multifaceted study of an increasing postwar interconnectedness
across a socialist world.
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