THEORY FOR A GLOBAL AGE
Series Editor: Gurminder K. Bhambra, University of Warwick, UK.
Editorial Board: Michael Burawoy (University of California Berkeley, USA), Neera Chandhoke, (University of Delhi, India) Robin Cohen (University of Oxford, UK), Peo Hansen (Linköping University, Sweden) John Holmwood (University of Nottingham, UK), Walter Mignolo (Duke University, USA), Emma Porio (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra, Portugal).
Globalization is widely viewed as the current condition of the world, only recently come into being. There is little engagement with its long histories and how these histories continue to have an impact on current social, political, and economic configurations and understandings. Theory for a Global Age takes ‘the global’ as the already-always existing condition of the world and one that should have informed analysis in the past as well as informing analysis for the present and future. The series is not about globalization as such, but, rather, it addresses the impact a properly critical reflection on ‘the global’ might have on disciplines and different fields within the social sciences and humanities. It asks how we might understand our present and future differently if we start from a critical examination of the idea of the global as a political and interpretive device; and what consequences this would have for reconstructing our understandings of the past, including our disciplinary pasts.
Each book in the series focuses on a particular theoretical issue or topic of empirical controversy and debate, addressing theory in a more comprehensive and interconnected manner in the process. With books commissioned from scholars from across the globe, the series explores understandings of the global – and global understandings – from diverse viewpoints. The series will be available in print, in eBook format and free online, through a Creative Commons licence, aiming to encourage academic engagement on a broad geographical scale and to further the reach of the debates and dialogues that the series develops.
Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism Peo Hansen & Stefan Jonsson | Forthcoming titles: The Black Pacific: Anticolonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections Robbie Shilliam |
On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions Joan Cocks | John Dewey: The Global Public and Its Problems John Narayan |
Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South Edited by Lars Eckstein and Anja Schwarz | Stark Utopia: Debt as a Technology of Power Richard Robbins and Tim Di Muzio Cosmopolitanism and Antisemitism Robert Fine and Philip Spencer Debating Civilizations: Interrogating Civilizational Analysis in a Global Age Jeremy Smith |