Spatial Formats Under the Global Condition

401 Pages·2019·2.297 MB·English

by  Matthias Middell (editor), Steffi Marung (editor)

SpatialFormatsundertheGlobalCondition
Dialectics of the Global
Edited by
Matthias Middell
Volume 1
Spatial Formats
under the Global
Condition
Edited by
Steffi Marung/Matthias Middell
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Preface
Ever since the 1990s, “globalization” has been a dominant idea and, indeed,
ideology.ThemetanarrativesofColdWarvictorybytheWest,theexpansionof
the market economy, and the boost in productivity through internationaliza-
tion, digitalization, and the increasing dominance of the finance industry be-
came associated with the promise of a global trickle-down effect that would
leadtogreaterprosperityforevermorepeopleworldwide.Anycriticismofthis
viewpointwascounteredwiththeargumentthattherewasnoalternative;glob-
alizationwastoopowerfulandthusirreversible.Today,theideologyof“global-
ization” meets with growing scepticism. An era of exaggerated optimism for
globalintegrationhasbeenreplacedbyaneraofdoubtandaquestforareturn
to particularistic sovereignty. However, processes of global integration have
not dissipated and the rejection of “globalization” as ideology has not dimin-
ishedtheneedtomakesensebothoftheactuallyexistinghighlevelofinterde-
pendenceandtheideologythatgavemeaningandjustificationtoit.
Thefollowingthreedialecticsoftheglobalareinthefocusofthisseries:
Multiplicity and Co-Presence: “Globalization” is neither a natural occurrence
norasingularprocess;onthecontrary,therearecompetingprojectsofglobali-
zation, which must be explained in their own right and compared in order to
examinetheirlayeringandtheirinteractivecomposition.
IntegrationandFragmentation:Globalprocessesresultinde-aswellasreterri-
torialization. They go hand in hand with the dissolution of boundaries, while
alsoproducingarespatializationoftheworld.
Universalism and Particularism: Globalization projects are justified and legiti-
mizedthroughuniversalclaims ofvalidity;however,atthe sametime they re-
flecttheworldviewand/orinterestofparticularactors.
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Contents
Preface V
SteffiMarungandMatthiasMiddell
TheRespatializationoftheWorldasoneoftheDrivingDialecticsunder
theGlobalCondition 1
Part I:Concepts and Historicity
MatthiasMiddell
CategoryofSpatialFormats:ToWhatEnd? 15
BobJessop
SpatiotemporalFixesandMultispatialMetagovernance:TheTerritory,
Place,Scale,NetworkSchemeRevisited 48
JudithMiggelbrink
MappingtheToolbox:AssemblageThinkingasaHeuristic 78
Part II:Territories
FrankSchumacher
ReclaimingTerritory:TheSpatialContoursofEmpireinUSHistory 107
JohnBreuilly
ModernTerritoriality,theNation-State,andNationalism 149
Part III:Portals
GeertCastryck
DisentanglingtheColonialCity:SpatialSeparationsandEntanglements
insideTownsandacrosstheEmpireinColonialAfricaandEurope 183
VIII Contents
HolgerWeiss
Hamburg,8Rothesoodstrasse:FromaGlobalSpacetoaNon-place 205
AntjeDietze
VisionsoftheWorld.TransnationalConnectionsofthePanorama
IndustryinLeipzigattheTurnoftheTwentiethCentury 228
Part IV: InternationalSpaces
GlendaSluga
TheInternationalHistoryof(International)Sovereignty 257
SteffiMarung,UweMüllerandStefanTroebst
MonolithorExperiment?TheBlocasaSpatialFormat 275
UlfEngel
RegionalismsandRegionalOrganizations 310
SarahRuthSippelandMichaelaBöhme
Dis/ArticulatingAgri-foodSpaces:TheMultifacetedLogics
ofAgro-investments 334
HannesWarnecke-Berger
TheSpatialTurnandEconomics:Migration,Remittances,
andTransnationalEconomicSpace 360
Authors 379
Index 382
Steffi Marungand MatthiasMiddell
The Respatialization of the World as one
of the Driving Dialectics under the Global
Condition
This volume is the result of intense collaboration among scholars from vari-
ousdisciplines–geography,sociology,history,culturalstudies,politicalsci-
ence,internationalstudies,andinternationalhistory–aswellasareastudies
expertise–onAfrica,theAmericas,andEuropeinparticular.Furthermore,it
is the outcome of various modes of translation across those disciplinary and
area boundaries. The invitation to collaborate on the project was to test
aconceptualvocabulary.Morethanacommonlanguage,thisvocabularyacts
as a heuristic repertoire to investigate how the intensification and accelera-
tionofglobalconnectednesshascausedreactionsbyvariousactorsatdiffer-
ent times and in varying geographies to deal with these challenges. These
reactions have essentially taken spatial forms, not only as efforts to contain,
limit,andstemflowsofgoods,people,orideas–byestablishingborders,cir-
cumscribing hermetic spaces of activity, preventing mobility, prohibiting access,
or excluding competitors – but also as struggles to manage, redirect, profit
from, fuel, and appropriate those flows – by creating networks, promoting hubs,
orpushingformoreexchangetothebenefitofdiverse,oftenconflictingprojects.
Accordingly,allauthorswithinthisvolumeshare anunderstandingof globaliza-
tion as a dialectic of flows and controls as well as of de- and reterritorialization,
essentially the result of multiple globalizationprojects,includingtheactivitiesof
actorswithspecificagendas,resources,andinstrumentstopursuethem.
The role of space insocial interaction has attracted rapidly growinginterest
over the past decades – both in academia in particular and society in general.
Thisinterestiscertainlymaintainedthroughtheperceptionthatnewtechnologies
andformsofcommunication–oftenencapsulatedinthetermdigitalization–as
wellasnewconfigurationsofpoliticalaffairsataglobalscale–oftensummarized
underthenotionofthenewworldorder–areabouttobringnewformsandfunc-
tionsofspaceintoexistence.Thishasledtoaproliferationof–oftenmetaphori-
cally used – spatialsemantics, which seemtoindicatethat newphenomena are
emerging.
Withinthesearchforanexplanationofsuchnewspatialconfigurations,this
newnessisrelatedtoandevenintegratedintothemostpowerfulnarrativeofour
times:thatbeingthatglobalization isboth the driving force and the framework
foramultitudeofsocietalchanges.Afteraperiodofoveroptimisticspeculations
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