Revisiting the Global Imaginary

Chris Hudson is Associate Professor of Asian Media and Culture in the School of Media and Communication at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia. She has published widely on cultural politics in Asia.Erin K. Wilson is Associate Professor of Politics and Religion at the Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Her research focuses broadly on religion, secularism and global justice, with particular interest in the politics of forced migration, human rights, gender and climate change.

• Part I Manfred Steger and the Theorizing Globalization.- 1. Blazing Scholarly Ground: From International Studies to Global Studies.- 2. Evolving Global Studies.- 3. The Social Imaginary in Theory and Practice.- 4. Global Studies: Contested Fields, One Domain?.- Part II Manfred Steger’s Global Imaginary and Everyday Life.- 5. Searching for Sugar Man: Thinking on the Border of the Global/Apartheid Imaginary (Isaac Kamola).- 6. Global Imaginaries Beyond Markets: The Globalization of Money, Family, and Financial Inclusion.- 7. Into the Glorious Future: The Utopia of Cybernetic Capitalism According to Google’s Ideologues.- 8. Imagining Global Non-violent Consciousness.- 9. The Symbolic Power of the Global: Interpreting Cultural and Ideological Change in Melbourne, Australia.- 10. The ‘Craic’ Goes Global: Irish Pubs and the Global Imaginary.- 11. Afterword.