Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation

Edited by Katja Freistein, Academy of International Affairs NRW, Germany, Bettina Mahlert, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Sigrid Quack, Professor of Sociology and Managing Director and Christine Unrau, Research Group Leader, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

‘This excellent volume courageously recasts the study of global cooperation. Instead of looking to the past to make sense of where the world finds itself today, it boldly inquires how the future is imagined in the present. Instead of looking at the state of global cooperation through the lofty ideals of philosophers, it offers a rich perspective through the eyes of practitioners, academics, and activists. And instead of treading customary ground in international relations theory, it melds a rich interdisciplinary tableau to capture the practice, emotion, and aspirational elements that move global governance day-to-day. In short, this book richly rewards readers with new ways to imagine the future of global cooperation.’

• Contents:Preface xii1 Imagining pathways for global cooperation: an introduction 1Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack and Christine UnrauPART I INITIATING COOPERATION2 Imagining, visualizing, and narrating peace through trade:free trade networks, world exhibitions, and pathways ofglobal cooperation 30Wolfram Kaiser3 The ‘true utopia’? Riace, Wim Wenders’ Il Volo, and theprefigurative politics of migration 52Christine Unrau4 Migration as a human right: pathways of global solidarityat the borders of Europe 70Stefania MaffeisPART II CONTESTING COOPERATION5 Pathways of immunity, customary law, and the creation ofan authoritative past 92Katja Freistein and Wouter Werner6 Entangled imaginaries and bonds of shared pain: the caseof Kashmiri and Palestinian resistance 108Amya Agarwal7 Pathways and the politics of anticipation: imagining thecorridor for international climate cooperation 126Jeroen Oomen and Silke BeckPART III CHANGING COOPERATION8 The Sphere Project: imagining better humanitarian actionthrough reflective accountability institutions and practices 147Maryam Z. Deloffre9 Imagining credible standards: what’s driving the ISEAL alliance? 170Christine Overdevest10 From per capita income to the Human Development Index:a pathway for imagining development through numbers 188Bettina Mahlert11 Envisioning the oikoumene: interfaith networks of socialactivism between Europe and Latin America 209Joanildo Burity12 Creating, challenging, and changing pathways forcooperation through imagination 230Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack andChristine UnrauIndex