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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Esther Peeren , Hanneke Stuit and Astrid Van Weyenberg -- Introduction: Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present / Esther Peeren , Hanneke Stuit and Astrid Van Weyenberg -- A Grammar of Peripheralization: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 / Mireille Rosello -- The Infra-Periphery and Global Circuits of Symbolic Capital Accumulation / Paulina Aroch-Fugellie -- Fragments in Relation: Trajectories of/for an Unbound Europe / Sudeep Dasgupta -- Peripheral Worldscapes in Circulation: Towards a Productive Understanding of Untranslatability / Doro Wiese -- The Center of All Concerns at the Periphery of the World: The Sahara Desert from a Nomadic Perspective / Luca Raineri -- Cast(e)ing Life: The Experience of Living in Peripheral Caste Quarters / Durgesh Solanki -- The South African Backyard as a Very Local Peripheral Space / Ena Jansen -- Mobile Peripheries? Contesting and Negotiating Peripheries in the Global Era of Mobility / Magdalena Ślusarczyk and Paula Pustułka -- “Repairing Europe”: A Critical Reading of Storytelling in European Cultural Projects / Astrid Van Weyenberg -- The Rise of the Peripheral Subject: Questions of Cultural Hybridity in the Greek “Crisis” / Geli Mademli -- Remains to be Un/Seen: Envisioning the Disappeared in Willie Doherty’s Ancient Ground and Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light / Paula Blair -- 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 / Ksenia Robbe -- The Heterotopic Closet: Spectral Presences and Otherworlds in La Revue Monstre and Michael James O’Brien’s Interiors / Matthieu Foucher -- Name Index / Esther Peeren , Hanneke Stuit and Astrid Van Weyenberg.