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This 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.
List of contents
Introduction, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Suvi Alt, and Maarten Meijer
1. Novelty and the Creation of the New World in XVI C Spain, Luis Lobo-Guerrero
2. Faciality and the Digital Politics of Identity at Face Value, Carina Huessy
3. After Ports were Linked: Paradoxes of Transpacific Connectivity in the Nineteenth Century, Sujin Eom
4. Zones at Sea and the Properties of Connectivity: (A)roundness, (Imm)unity and Liquidity, Barry J Ryan
5. From Tian Xia to Sovereignty: The Shift of the Chinese Imaginary of Connectivity in the Nineteenth Century, Ariel Shangguan
6. 'Making up Germans': Colonialism, Cartography and Imaginaries of 'Germandom', Zeynep Gülsah Çapan and Filipe dos Reis
7. Friedrich's 'Germany': Landscape Painting as Imaginary and Experience of Connectivity, Benjamin Tallis
8. Cultivating Disconnection: Imaginaries of Rurality in the Catalan Pyrenees, Camila del Mármol
9. Organisms, Nodes and Networks, Paolo Palladino
Conclusions, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Suvi Alt, and Maarten Meijer
Epilogue: Only Connect, Peter Adey
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Edited by Luis Lobo-Guerrero; Suvi Alt and Maarten Meijer
Summary
This edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity in time.
