Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor’s engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for global research in the 21st century.
Table of Content
Foreword / Saskia Sassen
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction / Hilary E. Kahn
1. AFFECT—Making the Global through Care / Deirdre Mc Kay
2. DISPLACEMENT—Framing the Global Relationally / Faranak Miraftab
3. FORMS—Art Institutions as Global Forms in India and Beyond: Cultural Production, Temporality, and Place / Manuela Ciotti
4. FRAMES—Reframing Oceania: Lessons from Pacific Studies / Katerina Martina Teaiwa
5. GENEALOGIES—Connecting Spaces in Historical Studies of the Global / Prakash Kumar
6. LAND—Engaging with the Global: Perspectives on Land from Botswana / Anne Griffiths
7. LOCATION—Film and Media Location: Toward a Dynamic and Scaled Sense of Global Place / Stephanie De Boer
8. MATERIALITY—Transnational Materiality / Zsuzsa Gille
9. THE PARTICULAR—The Persistence of the Particular in the Global / Rachel Harvey
10. RIGHTS—The Rise of Rights and Nonprofit Organizations in East African Societies / Alex Perullo
11. RULES—Global Production and the Puzzle of Rules / Tim Bartley
12. SCALE—Exploring the ‘Global ’68’ / Deborah Cohen and Lessie Jo Frazier
13. SEASCAPE—The Chinese Atlantic /Sean Metzger
14. SOVEREIGNTY—Crisis, Humanitarianism, and the Condition of Twenty-First-Century Sovereignty / Michael Mascarenhas
Contributors
Index
About the author
Hilary E. Kahn is Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University. She is author of Seeing and Being Seen: The Q’eqchi’ Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond.
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