Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other hand. Under the global condition spatial formats are products of collective negotiations on the most effective and widely acceptable balance between the claim for sovereignty and the need for interconnectedness.
How do people create spaces for social action under the global condition, especially since the nineteenth century, when global interconnectedness increased rapidly? We explore the problem through specific case studies.
... under the Global Condition " , in : S. Marung and M. Middell ( eds . ) , Spatial Formats under the Global Condition , Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenburg , 2019 , pp . 1–11 . 149 M. Middell , “ Category of Spatial Formats : To What End ? " , in ...
90 Similarly, David Hughes shows how white settlers in Zimbabwe 'imagine[d] the natives away' in their early attempts to negotiate an identity with the land.91 David Arnold's Tropics and the Traveling Gaze (2006) drew explicitly on ...
Through an empirical investigation of actors, places, and ideas in and around Burkina Faso’s industrial gold mining sector, this volume carries out an anti-essentialist yet critical examination, offering new insights into global mining ...
Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era.
... (eds.), Spatial Formats under the Global Condition, Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019, pp. 15–47. or non-ethnic Chinese students, academics, and language teachers who may 118 Fo Guang Shan and Global China as a Spatial Order.
The author of Pearson's Australasian School Atlas partly addresses the mixed situation by pointing out that some school atlases in use are blatantly ignorant of the divisions of the continent and of the position of the colony of ...
... global condition . Middell and Marung , Spatial Formats under the Global Condition . 54 Engel and Nugent , Respacing Africa ; Döring and Herpolsheimer , “ The Spaces of Intervention for Mali and Guinea - Bissau " ; Herpolsheimer , ...
... spatial formats, see M. Middell and S. Marung (eds.), Spatial Formats under the Global Condition, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Following the title of P. Harvey, “Cementing Relations. The Materiality of Roads and Public Space in ...
... in the Global 18th Century. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2014. Middell, Matthias. “Category of Spatial Formats: To What End?” Spatial Formats under the Global Condition. Ed. Matthias Middell and Steffi Marung. Berlin, Boston ...