Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society)

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 â#x80;other globesâ#x80;#x9D; 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 beenâ#x80;#x94;and might beâ#x80;#x94;imagined. As such, the fourteen contributions underline that there is no neutral, natural or universal way of inhabiting the global Acknowledgments 7 Contents 9 Notes on Contributors 11 List of Figures 16 Chapter 1 Introduction. Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization 18 Globe, Earth, World, and Planet 22 Situating Global Imaginations 27 The Ascent of Modern Globalism 31 Critiques of Modern Globalism 36 Chapter Outline 46 Works Cited 51 Chapter 2 Protest from the Margins: Emerging Global Networks in the Early Sixteenth Century and Their German Detractors 57 Early Modern Globalization: Theoretical Considerations 57 Early Modern Globalization in the Context of European Humanism 61 Economic and Financial Objections to Global Trade 63 Nationalist and Xenophobic Responses 68 Global Trade as Violation of Divine Order and Sign of Moral Decline 70 Conclusion: Anti-Globalization Rhetoric Then and Now 73 Works Cited 74 Chapter 3 Being in the Globe: Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights at the Fringes of Modern Globalism 79 Overlapping Geographies 82 Modernity and Existential Space 86 Deconstructing Spatialities 89 Inhabiting the Globe 94 Coda: Dwelling and Domes 97 Works Cited 99 Chapter 4 The Nature of the Historical: Forming Worlds, Resisting the Temptation 101 Naturalesa 105 Claims of Culture 110 Reclaiming History 114 Works Cited 121 Chapter 5 H. G. Wells and Planetary Prose 123 Works Cited 138 Chapter 6 Visions of Global Modernity in Hispano-Filipino Literature 140 Introduction 140 Writing the Philippines in the Language of Empire 143 Envisioning a Modern Philippines 147 Refiguring the Mapamundi 151 Conclusion 157 Works Cited 160 Chapter 7 Global Africa 163 The Global Vision of African Writing 167 Pan-Africanism 169 Transnational Africa 171 Transnation 173 Global Africa—Beyond Diaspora 176 Works Cited 177 Chapter 8 World-Imagining from Below 179 Works Cited 188 Chapter 9 Novelization in Decolonization, or, Postcolonialism Reconsidered 190 Libertarian Optics 193 Triangle, Circle, Square, Banana 200 The Question of Palestine 203 Works Cited 206 Chapter 10 Ethnoplanetarity: Contemporaneity and Scale in Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz and El botón de nácar 208 Heteroscalarity 209 Contemporaneity 213 Ethnoplanetarity 221 Works Cited 223 Chapter 11 Weirding Earth: Reimagining the Global Through Speculative Cartographies in Literature, Art, and Music 225 Introduction: Beyond the Overview Effect 225 Toward New Syntheses of the Global 229 Negarestani’s Geophilosophical Realism 232 Traumatic Transplantations in Area X 233 Fourth World Musics 236 The Sphere Undoing Itself Before Our Eyes 238 Conclusion 240 Works Cited 240 Chapter 12 Planetary Lovers: On Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens’s Water Makes Us Wet 243 Ecosexual Kinship 246 The Trouble with Mother Earth 248 Water Make Us Wet 252 Who Speaks for the Earth? 255 Conclusion 257 Works Cited 258 Chapter 13 A World in Miniatures: Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands 261 Alterity-Oriented World-Making 264 Non-propositional World-Knowledge 268 Conclusion 274 Works Cited 276 Chapter 14 The End-of-the-World as World System 279 “Finally!” 279 Imagining an Ending 280 The Consolations of the Apocalypse 284 The Allure of the Natural Disaster 286 Longing for Simplicity 290 A Posthuman Utopianism 292 Works Cited 294 Index 296 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 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 â#x80;other globesâ#x80;#x9D; 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 beenâ#x80;#x94;and might beâ#x80;#x94;imagined. As such, the fourteen contributions underline that there is no neutral, natural or universal way of inhabiting the global