Peripheral visions in the globalizing present : : space, mobility, aesthetics / / edited by Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit, Astrid Van Weyenberg.

• TeilnehmendeR: Peeren, Esther,; Stuit, Hanneke,; Weyenberg, A. van, 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 pages) :; color illustrations, photographs.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present /; A Grammar of Peripheralization: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 /; The Infra-Periphery and Global Circuits of Symbolic Capital Accumulation /; Fragments in Relation: Trajectories of/for an Unbound Europe /; Peripheral Worldscapes in Circulation: Towards a Productive Understanding of Untranslatability /; The Center of All Concerns at the Periphery of the World: The Sahara Desert from a Nomadic Perspective /; Cast(e)ing Life: The Experience of Living in Peripheral Caste Quarters /; The South African Backyard as a Very Local Peripheral Space /; Mobile Peripheries? Contesting and Negotiating Peripheries in the Global Era of Mobility /; “Repairing Europe”: A Critical Reading of Storytelling in European Cultural Projects /; The Rise of the Peripheral Subject: Questions of Cultural Hybridity in the Greek “Crisis” /; Remains to be Un/Seen: Envisioning the Disappeared in Willie Doherty’s Ancient Ground and Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light /; Shaping “Common Places”: Post-Soviet Narratives beyond Anti-Utopia in Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory and Igor Saveljev’s Tereshkova is Flying to Mars /; The Heterotopic Closet: Spectral Presences and Otherworlds in La Revue Monstre and Michael James O’Brien’s Interiors /; Name Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISBN: 9004323058
• ISSN: 1570-7253
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit, Astrid Van Weyenberg.

This volume sheds new light on how today’s peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized in a context of rapidly advancing globalization. Focusing on peripheral spaces, mobilities and aesthetics, it presents critical readings of, among others, Indian caste quarters, the Sahara, the South African backyard and European migration, as well as films, novels and artworks about marginalized communities and repressed histories. Together, these readings insist that the peripheral not only needs more visibility in political, economic and cultural terms, but is also invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present. Peripheral Visions combines sociological, cultural, literary and philosophical perspectives on the periphery, and highlights peripheral innovation and futurity to counter the lingering association of the peripheral with stagnation and backwardness.