Imagining pathways for global cooperation / / edited by Katja Freistein [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Freistein, Katja,; Edward Elgar Publishing,
• Place / Publishing House: Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"This book examines the role of imagination in initiating, contesting, and changing the pathways of global cooperation. Building on carefully contextualized empirical cases from diverse policy fields, regions, and historical periods, it highlights the agency of a wide range of actors in reflecting on past and present experiences and imagining future ways of collective problem solving. Chapters analyse the mobilizing, identity, cognitive, emotional, and normative effects through which imaginations shape pathways for global cooperation. Expert contributors consider the ways in which actors combine multiple layers of meaning-making through practices of staging the past and present as well as in their circulation. Exploring the contingency and open-endedness of processes of global cooperation, the book challenges more systemic and output-oriented perspectives of global governance. Its synthesis of ways in which imaginations inform processes of creating, contesting, and changing pathways for global cooperation provides a novel conceptual approach to the study of global cooperation. Interdisciplinary in approach, this authoritative book offers new ways of thinking about global cooperation to scholars and students of international relations, development studies, law and politics, international theory, global sociology and global history as well as practitioners and policy makers across various policy fields"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Imagining pathways for global cooperation: an introduction -- PART I Initiating cooperation -- 2. Imagining, visualizing, and narrating peace through trade: free trade networks, world exhibitions, and pathways of global cooperation -- 3. The 'true utopia'? Riace, Wim Wenders' Il Volo, and the prefigurative politics of migration -- 4. Migration as a human right: pathways of global solidarity at the borders of Europe -- PART II Contesting cooperation -- 5. Pathways of immunity, customary law, and the creation of an authoritative past -- 6. Entangled imaginaries and bonds of shared pain: the case of Kashmiri and Palestinian resistance -- 7. Pathways and the politics of anticipation: imagining the corridor for international climate cooperation -- PART III Changing cooperation -- 8. The Sphere Project: imagining better humanitarian action through reflective accountability institutions and practices -- 9. Imagining credible standards: what's driving the ISEAL Alliance? -- 10. From per capita income to the Human Development Index: a pathway for imagining development through numbers -- 11. Envisioning the oikoumene: interfaith networks of social activism between Europe and Latin America -- 12. Creating, challenging, and changing pathways for cooperation through imagination -- Index.