Revisiting the Global Imaginary

Manfred B. Steger's extensive body of work on globalization has made him one of the most influential scholars working in the field of global studies today. His conceptualization of the global imaginary is amongst the most significant developments in thinking about globalization of the last three decades. Revisiting the Global Imaginary pays tribute to Steger's contribution to our intellectual history with essays on the evolution, ontological foundations and methodological approaches to the study of the global imaginary.

The transdisciplinary framework of this field of enquiry lends itself to investigation in diverse sites. This volume of essays explores practices associated with the reproduction of the global imaginary in such diverse sites as mobile money, Irish pubs, cyber-capitalism, urban space, music in post-apartheid South Africa and global political movements, amongst others.

Auteur

Chris Hudson is Associate Professor of Asian Media and Culture in the School of Media and Communication at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia. She has published widely on cultural politics in Asia. Erin K. Wilson is Associate Professor of Politics and Religion at the Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Her research focuses broadly on religion, secularism and global justice, with particular interest in the politics of forced migration, human rights, gender and climate change.

Contenu
Part I. Manfred Steger and Theorizing Globalization1. Blazing Scholarly Ground: From International Studies to Global Studies (Daniel E. Esser and James H. Mittelman)2. Evolving Global Studies (Mark Juergensmeyer)3. The Social Imaginary in Theory and Practice (Paul James)4. Global Studies: Contested Fields, One Domain? (James Goodman)Part II. Manfred Steger's Global Imaginary and Everyday Life5. Searching for Sugar Man: Thinking on the Border of the Global/Apartheid Imaginary (Isaac Kamola)6. Global Imaginaries Beyond Markets: The Globalization of Money, Family and Financial Inclusion (Supriya Singh)7. Into the Glorious Future: The Utopia of Cybernetic-Capitalism According to Google's Ideologues (Timothy Erik Ström)8. Imagining Global Nonviolent Consciousness (Amentahru Wahlrab)9. The Symbolic Power of the Global: Interpreting Cultural and Ideological Change in Melbourne, Australia (Tommaso Durante)10. The 'Craic' Goes Global: Irish Pubs and the Global Imaginary (Chris Hudson)11. Afterword (Terrell Carver)