..., albeit a potentially explosive one, in which the possibility of any encounter with alterity is buried, killed, destroyed. Apter's argument draws on Gayatri Spivak's elaboration of the “planet” as a figure in a critical rewriting of the system-logic of globalization. Adorno Theodor Benjamin Walter Woolf...

...This chapter constitute a cultural critique of a growing left-oriented momentum in the U.S. that privileges world literature at the expense of the critical imperatives of the actual interregnum. The chapter claims this globally-oriented momentum that abandons the local “the nation-state system...

...Catholic Studies emerges in the North American context precisely at a time when the boundaries for identifying “Catholic” are contested. Under conditions of globalization when persons shift in and out of a variety of local and transnational affiliations, the identifier is not as clear as perhaps...

... dominance of global capitalism as a defining feature of the U.S. nation discrimination civil rights Pacific whiteness 20 affirmative action capitalism citizenship Cold War incarceration India model minority Pew Research racialization ethnic studies globalization institutionalization Melamed...

.... Though generally dismissed by scholars, Angela’s Ashes is shown to yield surprising insights about the Celtic Tiger mentality and the trajectory of Irish postcoloniality under the influence of globalization. The chapter argues that McCourt develops a postmodern naturalism that cynically...

... awareness of diversity in a globalizing context (part 3) from a theological perspective. church Colossians Copernicanism Gaudium et Spes Genesis grace humanity image of God ability to bear John Paul II John personhood relation relationality Vatican II animal continuity with humans Aquinas...

...Imperialism—the political doctrine of world domination and infinite expansion—is actually the intellectual origin of the global financial crisis. Building upon Arendt's analysis of imperialism as one of the elements underlying the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century, this chapter argues...

... “social costs” they have brought about a total economization of the political discourse, as well as of the concepts of thinking. And the result is a loss of social care. Arendt Hannah democracy global financial crisis imperialism nation state Origins of Totalitarianism The politics capitalism...

... growth or capitalism. In other words, competitive national exertion is what explains the persistence of capitalist activity. Along the way, Greenfeld dispels misconceptions surrounding capitalism—including the perception that capitalism is tied to globalization. capitalism Marx Karl nationalism Weber...

...This chapter discusses globalization in relation to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's view on the future of humanity. In answering the question concerning the unification of humanity through faith and action, Teilhard de Chardin revealed an image of Christian perfection of the human effort. He also...

... drift toward which it seems destined to slide. Immunization Democracy Community Society Immunitas Communitas Munus Proper Improper Technology Globalization Power Ontology Does the term community refer to democracy? Might it, or is it too profoundly rooted in the conceptual...

...Chapter 6 questions the applicability of the classical political lexicon (democracy, freedom, and rights) to contemporary reality, characterized by the end of Soviet communism and the advent of global terrorism in the September 11 attacks. The chapter argues that these great words of political...

... underground readings to international contemporary art, Prigov developed a “global project” encompassing diverse discourses, genres, and media, and various local and transnational languages and cultural systems from samizdat to dinosaur mania, poetry to performance art. Prigov undermined each medium, language...

...Through the writings of US poet Charles Bernstein, this chapter examines the tension between affective immediacy and distancing artifice in attempts to read and write our era of globalization. From his late–Cold War essays on Ezra Pound and his post–Cold War writing on the “Poetics of the Americas...

... everyday estrangement, Bei Dao’s allegory and echo, Dmitri Prigov’s intersecting iterations, and Charles Bernstein’s affective immediacy and distancing artifice. When seen through the cross-cultural encounters and poetries wrought by the passage from the Cold War world to our current era of globalization...

...This chapter focuses on the impact of globalization on human bodies as they are managed in global cities. In addition to uncovering the integration of colonial computations of the difference into the new forms of empire, it proposes a crip/topography: that is, it attempts to think “the crip...

...This chapter discusses code-switching and mixing of languages as the most contested linguistic practice in the age of globalization. It demonstrates how this practice, particularly associated with immigrant youth, is racialized by public discourse, but can also serve to thematize such racialization...

...The introduction situates world literature and the Anthropocene as instances of broader dynamics of world-imagining and a recent shift toward the global as a scale of analysis. It offers an expanded narrative of globalization, by looking back to moments of capitalist expansion that precede...

...The discipline of nineteenth-century botany was central both to the British imperial project and to the development of global theory. This article shows how the work of botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) advanced certain concepts of globalization by exploring scale relationships in two mid...