Spatial Entrepreneurs: Actors and Practices of Space-making Under the Global Condition - Couverture rigide

 
9783110639674: Spatial Entrepreneurs: Actors and Practices of Space-making Under the Global Condition
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 311063967X ISBN 13 : 9783110639674
Editeur : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Steffi Marung, Leipzig University; Ursula Rao, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/ Saale, Germany.

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Éditeur
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
311063967X
ISBN 13 
9783110639674
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
205
Éditeur
Marung Steffi, Rao Ursula
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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