Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present

Esther Peeren is Associate Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include Intersubjectivity and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond (Stanford, 2008) and The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility (Palgrave, 2014). Hanneke Stuit is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her recent publications deal with community and ubuntu, including Ubuntu Strategies: Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture (Palgrave, 2016). Astrid Van Weyenberg is Lecturer of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University and a member of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts (LUCAS). She is the author of The Politics of Adaptation: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy (Rodopi, 2013).

• ContentsIntroduction: Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present, Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit and Astrid Van Weyenberg Part 1: Theorizing the PeripheralA Grammar of Peripheralization: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, Mireille RoselloThe Infra-Periphery and Global Circuits of Symbolic Capital Accumulation, Paulina Aroch-FugellieFragments in Relation: Trajectories of/for an Unbound Europe, Sudeep DasguptaPeripheral Worldscapes in Circulation: Towards a Productive Understanding of Untranslatability, Doro WiesePart II: Peripheral SpacesThe Center of All Concerns at the Periphery of the World: The Sahara Desert from a Nomadic Perspective, Luca Raineri Cast(e)ing Life: The Experience of Living in Peripheral Caste Quarters, Durgesh SolankiThe South African Backyard as a Very Local Peripheral Space, Ena JansenPart III: Peripheral MobilitiesMobile Peripheries? Contesting and Negotiating Peripheries in the Global Era of Mobility, Magdalena Ślusarczyk and Paula Pustułka“Repairing Europe”: A Critical Reading of Storytelling in European Cultural Projects, Astrid Van Weyenberg The Rise of the Peripheral Subject: Questions of Cultural Hybridity in the Greek “Crisis”, Evangelia MademliPart IV: Peripheral AestheticsRemains to be Un/Seen: Envisioning the Disappeared in Willie Doherty’s Ancient Ground and Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light, Paula BlairShaping “Common Places”: Post-Soviet Narratives beyond Anti-Utopia in Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory and Igor Saveljev’s Tereshkova is Flying to Mars, Ksenia RobbeThe Heterotopic Closet: Spectral Presences and Otherworlds in La Revue Monstre and Michael James O’Brien’s Interiors, Matthieu FoucherContributorsName Index