Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present : Space, Mobility, Aesthetics.

Intro -- Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present: Space, Mobility, Aesthetics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Thamyris Mission Statement -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present -- Part 1: Theorizing the Peripheral -- 1 A Grammar of Peripheralization: Neill Blomkamp's District 9 -- 2 The Infra-Periphery and Global Circuits of Symbolic Capital Accumulation -- 3 Fragments in Relation: Trajectories of/for an Unbound Europe -- 4 Peripheral Worldscapes in Circulation: Towards a Productive Understanding of Untranslatability -- Part 2: Peripheral Spaces -- 5 The Center of All Concerns at the Periphery of the World: The Sahara Desert from a Nomadic Perspective -- 6 Cast(e)ing Life: The Experience of Living in Peripheral Caste Quarters -- 7 The South African Backyard as a Very Local Peripheral Space -- Part 3: Peripheral Mobilities -- 8 Mobile Peripheries? Contesting and Negotiating Peripheries in the Global Era of Mobility -- 9 "Repairing Europe": A Critical Reading of Storytelling in European Cultural Projects -- 10 The Rise of the Peripheral Subject: Questions of Cultural Hybridity in the Greek "Crisis" -- Part 4: Peripheral Aesthetics -- 11 Remains to be Un/Seen: Envisioning the Disappeared in Willie Doherty's Ancient Ground and Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light -- 12 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 -- 13 The Heterotopic Closet: Spectral Presences and Otherworlds in La Revue Monstre and Michael James O'Brien's Interiors -- Name Index.

Peripheral Visions sheds new light on how today's peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized. Focusing on space, mobility and aesthetics, it argues that peripheries require more visibility, and are invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present.

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