Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 1
4. At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa 22
5. Mapping Concepts (Cartographier la pensée) 52
6. Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia 57
7. On Foot 78
8. On Wheels 81
9. Toward an Ethics of the Future 90
10. A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin 114
11. Mediating Time: The ‘‘Rice Bowl of Youth’’ in Fin de Siècle Urban China 131
12. Inside the Economy of Appearances 155
13. A Sweet Lullaby for World Music 189
14. On the Uddered Breast 217
15. Prehistories of Globalization: Circassian Identity in Motion 220
16. On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Woman’s Claim to Locality 251
17. From National Capital to Global Capital: Urban Change in Mexico City 253
18. Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization 260
19. Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital 279
20. The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity 307
21. Contributors 335
22. Index 339