Revisiting the Global Imaginary Theories, Ideologies, Subjectivities: Essays in Honor of Manfred Steger /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hudson, Chris (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wilson, Erin K. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Cultural policy.; Globalization.; Culture.; Cultural studies.; Political sociology.; World history.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Global/International Culture.; Cultural Studies.; Political Sociology.; World History, Global and Transnational History.

Manfred B. Steger's extensive body of work on globalization has made him one of the most influential scholars working in the field of global studies today. His conceptualization of the global imaginary is amongst the most significant developments in thinking about globalization of the last thre...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Manfred Steger and the Theorizing Globalization
• 1. Blazing Scholarly Ground: From International Studies to Global Studies
• 2. Evolving Global Studies
• 3. The Social Imaginary in Theory and Practice
• 4. Global Studies: Contested Fields, One Domain?
• Part II Manfred Steger's Global Imaginary and Everyday Life
• 5. Searching for Sugar Man: Thinking on the Border of the Global/Apartheid Imaginary (Isaac Kamola)
• 6. Global Imaginaries Beyond Markets: The Globalization of Money, Family, and Financial Inclusion
• 7. Into the Glorious Future: The Utopia of Cybernetic Capitalism According to Google's Ideologues
• 8. Imagining Global Non-violent Consciousness
• 9. The Symbolic Power of the Global: Interpreting Cultural and Ideological Change in Melbourne, Australia
• 10. The 'Craic' Goes Global: Irish Pubs and the Global Imaginary
• 11. Afterword.