Worldmaking Projects and the Infrastructural Nexus : An Interdisciplinary Exploration.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albert, Mathias.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2026.

Summary:

How do idealistic projects for shaping the world relate to the actual political organization of world politics?The contributors to this volume provide a fresh perspective on the formation of order in world politics.They develop and utilize the concept of Worldmaking Projects (WMPs).

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 The Infrastructural Nexus: Conceptualizing Worldmaking Projects and Their Infrastructures

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Conceptualizing worldmaking projects

2.2.1 The Three Dimensions of WMPs

2.2.2 WMPs as Empirical Objects of Study

2.3 The infrastructural nexus of WMPs

2.3.1 A Minimalist Conceptualization of Communications Infrastructures

2.3.2 'Negative' relations: Communications infrastructures as a nexus of conflict, competition, and other kinds of struggle

2.3.3 'Positive' relations: Negotiation, collaboration, and metaphors of political relationality

2.4 Conclusion

3 Are We Living in a 'New Age of Imperialism'? Studying the History of Interaction between Nationalist and Imperialist Worldmaking

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Nationalism and imperialism as WMPs: Conceptual remarks

3.3 The infrastructural nexus: Observing the emergence of and the interplay between nationalist and imperialist WMPs

3.3.1 Setting the stage: internationalisms in the late nineteenth to mid‐twentieth century

3.3.2 Immersion in the telegraph‐news‐alliance: How nationalism and imperialism became part of the infrastructural nexus

3.4 Conclusion and outlook: Studying 'nationalist informal imperialism'

3.4.1 Informal imperial practices

3.4.2 Relationship with nationalism

4 The (Non‑)Insular History of Imperialist Worldmaking

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Communications infrastructures and the emergence of an imperialist WMP

4.3 Racialization

4.4 Environmental transformations

4.5 The legacies of imperialist worldmaking

5 Where WMPs Meet 'up' and 'down': Exploration, Governance, and Infrastructures in the Polar Regions

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Overlapping at the poles? WMPs in the High North and Antarctica

5.2.1 On exploring and naming.

5.2.2 Infrastructural conquest and imaginaries

5.2.3 Worldmaking projects at the poles: imperialism, nationalism, inter‑/supranationalism

5.2.4 The rift zones of the WMP/infrastructural nexus

5.3 Polar Worldmaking Projects?

5.3.1 Struggles for establishing WMPs at the poles

5.3.2 The infrastructural making of polar WMPs

5.4 Conclusion

6 The Infrastructural Nexus Aloft: Worldmaking Projects in the Air and Outer Space

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The Interwar Wireless World

6.3 Early Satellite Communications

6.4 Conclusion

7 Worldmaking Activities after the Formal End of Empire: Examples from Africa

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Land rights from imperialism to the establishment of nation states in Africa

7.3 Access to land and debates around citizenship

7.4 Saving and storing money: Financial mutuals and the financial inclusion agenda

7.5 La Via Campesina and collective human rights

7.6 Conclusion

8 Worldmaking Projects, the Cunning of Reason, and the Evolution of World Statehood

8.1 Introduction: the rising planetary imaginary

8.2 The emergence of worldmaking projects

8.3 Worldmaking projects as abstract reconstructions

8.4 A brief history of the twentieth century in terms of WMPs

8.5 WMPs during the early 21st‐century regressive era

8.6 The cunning of world‐historical reason and world statehood

8.7 The role of changing forms of temporality in WMPs

8.8 Conclusions

References.

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ISBN:

3-8394-7763-8

9783839477632

OCLC:

1581949458