It places these debates in a large and vital context asking what the relations between cores and peripheries have in forming our vision of what constitutes globalization and what were and are its possible effects.

This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as ...

This volume challenges dominant imaginations of globalization by highlighting alternative visions of the globe, world, earth, or planet that abound in cultural, social, and political practice.

This volume of essays explores practices associated with the reproduction of the global imaginary in such diverse sites as mobile money, Irish pubs, cyber-capitalism, urban space, music in post-apartheid South Africa and global political ...

It places these debates in a large and vital context asking what the relations between cores and peripheries have in forming our vision of what constitutes globalization and what were and are its possible effects.

Peripheral Visions sheds new light on how today's peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized.

... world wars altered the boundaries of nations, but they have also changed the order of the world politically, economically as well as ideologically. Economic globalism and decolonisation destruct the polarity of the centre and peripheral ...

... globalization of the Western international order, Europe was merely a peripheral corner in a polycentric world system, in which various different international orders coexisted in a larger network (see Pomeranz 2000; Little 2014: 159 ...