IMAGINARIES OF CONNECTIVITY: Global Epistemics

Introduction, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Suvi Alt / 1. Novelty, Modernity and Globality in Early 16th Century Spain, Luis Lobo-Guerrero / 2. Imaging Empire: Cartography and Settlement Politics in Late 19th Century Germany, Zeynep Gulsah Capan and Filipe dos Reis / 3. China and/in "International": The Formulation of the Chinese Imaginary of Connectivity in the 19th Century, Ariel Shangguan / 4. After Ports Were Linked: Connected Worlds, Networked Spaces and New Urban Forms, Sujin Eom / 5. Imagining an Unforgiving Space: Controlling Forced Migration at Sea, Andonea Jon Dickson / 6. Cultivating Disconnection: Imaginaries of Rurality in the Catalan Pyrenees, Camila del Mármol / 7. Being Betwixt and Between: On Organisms, Nodes and Networks, Paolo Palladino / 8. Connectivity: The Infinity Effect, Michael Dillon /9. Conclusion, Luis Lobo-Guerrero and Suvi Alt

This edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity in time. While connectivity seems almost ubiquitous today, it has been imagined and practiced in various ways and to varying political effects in different historical and geographical contexts.