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Book SynopsisThis edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity in time. While connectivity seems almost ubiquitous today, it has been imagined and practiced in various ways and to varying political effects in different historical and geographical contexts. Often the conception of new connectivities also gives birth to new spaces of governance. The political denomination of spaces – whether maritime, continental, social, or virtual – reflects the situatedness of power. Yet, such crafting of new spaces also expresses particular imaginaries and technologies of connectivity that make governance possible. Whereas the study of international relations has traditionally focused on the role of agency and structure in power relations, the affects, beliefs, attitudes, and practices that intervene in how groups of people connect in given times have not attracted much scholarly attention Overall, the detailed and original case studies examined in the book range from the 16th century, to the 19th century, to the present, and from Spain, to the Maritime Alps, to Germany, to the Mediterranean, to China, to East Asia. The historical and geographical variety of the cases serves to highlight the diversity of the meaning and function of connectivity in the constitution of novel spaces of governance.
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Suvi Alt / 1. Novelty, Modernity and Globality in Early 16th Century Spain, Luis Lobo-Guerrero / 2. Imaging Empire: Cartography and Settlement Politics in Late 19th Century Germany, Zeynep Gulsah Capan and Filipe dos Reis / 3. China and/in "International": The Formulation of the Chinese Imaginary of Connectivity in the 19th Century, Ariel Shangguan / 4. After Ports Were Linked: Connected Worlds, Networked Spaces and New Urban Forms, Sujin Eom / 5. Imagining an Unforgiving Space: Controlling Forced Migration at Sea, Andonea Jon Dickson / 6. Cultivating Disconnection: Imaginaries of Rurality in the Catalan Pyrenees, Camila del Mármol / 7. Being Betwixt and Between: On Organisms, Nodes and Networks, Paolo Palladino / 8. Connectivity: The Infinity Effect, Michael Dillon /9. Conclusion, Luis Lobo-Guerrero and Suvi Alt
