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 Afric...

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.