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Intro; Preface; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Part I: Manfred Steger and the Theorizing of Globalization; Chapter 1: Blazing Scholarly Ground: From International Studies to Global Studies; Gaining Cosmopolitan Perspective; Themes; Chapter Overview; Global Questions Remain; References; Chapter 2: Evolving Global Studies; Emergence of a New Field; Transnationality; Interdisciplinarity; Trans-temporality; Critical Perspectives; The Global Study of Religion as an Example of Global Studies; Emerging Issues in Global Studies; Global as Theme Versus Primary Focus
Global Theory Versus PracticeGlobal Scholar as Academic Insider Versus Outsider; References; Chapter 3: The Social Imaginary in Theory and Practice; The Spirit of the Age and the Spirit of Humanity; A Brief Genealogy of the Concept of 'the Imaginary'; Toward a Working Conception of the Social Imaginary as Constituting and Constituted; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Global Studies: Contested Fields, One Domain?; A Short Archive: Policing 'The International'; Units of Analysis; Levels of Analysis; Conclusions; References; Part II: Manfred Steger's Global Imaginary and Everyday Life
Chapter 5: Searching for Sugar Man: Thinking on the Border of the Global/Apartheid ImaginaryFrom Social Imaginary to Modern/Colonial Imaginary; The Global/Apartheid Imaginary; Searching for Sugar Man and the Global/Apartheid Imaginary; Border Thinking and the Global/Apartheid Imaginary; References; Chapter 6: Global Imaginaries Beyond Markets: The Globalization of Money, Family, and Financial Inclusion; A New Perspective on Money in Personal Lives in the Global South; Financial Inclusion; Microfinance; Mobile Money; The Gender of Money; The Morality of Global Migrant Money
The Future of MoneyReferences; Chapter 7: Into the Glorious Future: The Utopia of Cybernetic Capitalism According to Google's Ideologues; Introduction; New Old Futures; 'The Future's So Bright…'; Determinism as Depoliticization; The New Dismal Age; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Imagining Global Non-violent Consciousness; Introduction; Social Imaginaries; Civil Resistance and Non-violence; The Function of the Global Imaginary; Consciousness Is Not Enough; References; Chapter 9: The Symbolic Power of the Global: Interpreting Cultural and Ideological Change in Melbourne, Australia
Globalization and the Social ImaginaryMarket Globalism: The Dominant Ideology of Globalization; A New Approach to the Aesthetics of Globalization; Mediating Practices: Spaces, Images, and Ideologies; The Visual Ideological Markers of Globality; The City and the Self: The Emergence of Global Subjectivity in Melbourne; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 10: The 'Craic' Goes Global: Irish Pubs and the Global Imaginary; Subjective Globalization and Affect; Looking for Scruffy Murphy: Globalizing Identity Fetishism
Global Theory Versus PracticeGlobal Scholar as Academic Insider Versus Outsider; References; Chapter 3: The Social Imaginary in Theory and Practice; The Spirit of the Age and the Spirit of Humanity; A Brief Genealogy of the Concept of 'the Imaginary'; Toward a Working Conception of the Social Imaginary as Constituting and Constituted; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Global Studies: Contested Fields, One Domain?; A Short Archive: Policing 'The International'; Units of Analysis; Levels of Analysis; Conclusions; References; Part II: Manfred Steger's Global Imaginary and Everyday Life
Chapter 5: Searching for Sugar Man: Thinking on the Border of the Global/Apartheid ImaginaryFrom Social Imaginary to Modern/Colonial Imaginary; The Global/Apartheid Imaginary; Searching for Sugar Man and the Global/Apartheid Imaginary; Border Thinking and the Global/Apartheid Imaginary; References; Chapter 6: Global Imaginaries Beyond Markets: The Globalization of Money, Family, and Financial Inclusion; A New Perspective on Money in Personal Lives in the Global South; Financial Inclusion; Microfinance; Mobile Money; The Gender of Money; The Morality of Global Migrant Money
The Future of MoneyReferences; Chapter 7: Into the Glorious Future: The Utopia of Cybernetic Capitalism According to Google's Ideologues; Introduction; New Old Futures; 'The Future's So Bright…'; Determinism as Depoliticization; The New Dismal Age; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Imagining Global Non-violent Consciousness; Introduction; Social Imaginaries; Civil Resistance and Non-violence; The Function of the Global Imaginary; Consciousness Is Not Enough; References; Chapter 9: The Symbolic Power of the Global: Interpreting Cultural and Ideological Change in Melbourne, Australia
Globalization and the Social ImaginaryMarket Globalism: The Dominant Ideology of Globalization; A New Approach to the Aesthetics of Globalization; Mediating Practices: Spaces, Images, and Ideologies; The Visual Ideological Markers of Globality; The City and the Self: The Emergence of Global Subjectivity in Melbourne; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 10: The 'Craic' Goes Global: Irish Pubs and the Global Imaginary; Subjective Globalization and Affect; Looking for Scruffy Murphy: Globalizing Identity Fetishism